Remarks on the Structure of Complex Symmetric Operators

A conjugation C is antilinear isometric involution on a complex Hilbert space , and is called complex symmetric if T* = CTC for some conjugation C. We use multiplicity theory to describe all conjugations commuting with a fixed positive operator. We expand upon a result of Garcia and Putinar to provide a factorization of complex symmetric operators which is based on the polar decomposition. This paper is based in part on the first author’s Master’s Project.