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On Self-Adjoint Factorization of Operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Heydar Radjavi
Heydar Radjavi*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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The main result of this paper is that every normal operator on an infinitedimensional (complex) Hilbert space ℋ is the product of four self-adjoint operators; our Theorem 4 is an actually stronger result. A large class of normal operators will be given which cannot be expressed as the product of three self-adjoint operators.

This work was motivated by a well-known resul t of Halmos and Kakutani (3) that every unitary operator on ℋ is the product of four symmetries, i.e., operators that are self-adjoint and unitary.

1. By “operator” we shall mean bounded linear operator. The space ℋ will be infinite-dimensional (separable or non-separable) unless otherwise specified. We shall denote the class of self-adjoint operators on ℋ by and that of symmetries by .

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 21 , 1969 , pp. 1421 - 1426
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1969

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