The effect of perturbations of linear operators on their polar decomposition

Duong, Richard; Philipp, Friedrich

doi:10.1090/proc/13252

The effect of perturbations of linear operators on their polar decomposition
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by Richard Duong and Friedrich Philipp

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 145 (2017), 779-790

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/13252

Published electronically: August 22, 2016

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Abstract:

The effect of matrix perturbations on the polar decomposition has been studied by several authors and various results are known. However, for operators between infinite-dimensional spaces the problem has not been considered so far. Here, we prove in particular that the partial isometry in the polar decomposition of an operator is stable under perturbations, given that kernel and range of original and perturbed operator satisfy a certain condition. In the matrix case, this condition is weaker than the usually imposed equal-rank condition. It includes the case of semi-Fredholm operators with agreeing nullities and deficiencies, respectively. In addition, we prove a similar perturbation result where the ranges or the kernels of the two operators are assumed to be sufficiently close to each other in the gap metric.

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