Tensor products and joint spectra

We prove that the joint spectrum of the tensor product of several operators is the cartesian product of their spectra.     

Tensor products and relation quantales

A classical tensor product \({A \otimes B}\) of complete lattices A and B, consisting of all down-sets in \({A \times B}\) that are join-closed in either coordinate, is isomorphic to the complete lattice Gal(A,B) of Galois maps from A to B, turning arbitrary joins into meets. We introduce more general kinds of tensor products for closure spaces and for posets. They have the expected universal property for bimorphisms (separately continuous maps or maps preserving restricted joins in the two components) into complete lattices. The appropriate ingredient for quantale constructions is here distributivity at the bottom, a generalization of pseudocomplementedness. We show that the truncated tensor product of a complete lattice B with itself becomes a quantale with the closure of the relation product as multiplication iff B is pseudocomplemented, and that the tensor product has a unit element iff B is atomistic. The pseudocomplemented complete lattices form a semicategory in which the hom-set between two objects is their tensor product. The largest subcategory of that semicategory has as objects the atomic boolean complete lattices, which is equivalent to the category of sets and relations. More general results are obtained for closure spaces and posets.     

Tensor products of orthoalgebras

We define a tensor product via a universal mapping property on the class oforthoalgebras, which are both partial algebras and orthocomplemented posets. We show how to construct such a tensor product forunital orthoalgebras, and use the Fano plane to show that tensor products do not always exist.     

Tensor products and matrix differential calculus

This paper sets forth some of the principal results of the algebra of Kronecker products in a way which relates them directly to the abstract algebra of tensor products. The concepts and the results that are developed in this way are used to analyse three alternative definitions that have been proposed for the derivative of a matrix function Y=Y(X) with respect to its matrix argument X. It is argued that only one of these definitions is viable. The other definitions, which are widely used in econometrics, are not consistent with the classical representation of linear algebra via matrix theory; and they lead to serious practical difficulties that do not arise when the appropriate definition is adopted.     

Tensor products of direct sums

A similar formula to the one established by Ansemil and Floret for symmetric tensor products of direct sums is proved for alternating and Jacobian tensor products. It is then applied to stable spaces where a number of isomorphisms between spaces of tensors or multilinear forms are unveiled. A connection between these problems and irreducible group representations is made.     

Tensor products on quiver representations

The aim of this article is to translate the well-known tensor product of representations of a group given by diagonal action to the case of representations of a quiver. We provide three different approaches and exhibit their close relationship to the point-wise tensor product, which is considered in [M. Herschend, Solution to the Clebsch-Gordan problem for Kronecker representations. U.U.D.M Project Report 2003:P1, Uppsala University, 2003; M. Herschend, Solution to the Clebsch-Gordan problem for representations of quivers of type , J. Algebra Appl. 4 (5) (2005) 481-488; M. Herschend, On the Clebsch-Gordan problem for quiver representations. U.U.D.M Report 2005:43, Uppsala University, 2005].     

Tensor products of subnormal operators

We shall use a -algebra approach to study operators of the form where is subnormal and is normal. We shall determine the spectral properties for these operators, and find the minimal normal extension and the dual operator. We also give a necessary condition for to contain a compact operator and a sufficient condition for the algebraic equivalence of and .

We also consider the existence of a homomorphism satisfying . We shall characterize the operators such that exists for every operator .

The problem of when is unitarily equivalent to is considered. Complete results are given when and are positive operators with finite multiplicity functions and has compact self-commutator. Some examples are also given.

     

Tensor products of coherent configurations

A Cartesian decomposition of a coherent configuration ✗ is defined as a special set of its parabolics that form a Cartesian decomposition of the underlying set. It turns out that every tensor decomposition of ✗ comes from a certain Cartesian decomposition. It is proved that if the coherent configuration ✗ is thick, then there is a unique maximal Cartesian decomposition of ✗; i.e., there is exactly one internal tensor decomposition of ✗ into indecomposable components. In particular, this implies an analog of the Krull–Schmidt theorem for the thick coherent configurations. A polynomial-time algorithm for finding the maximal Cartesian decomposition of a thick coherent configuration is constructed.     

Tensor products of tilting modules

We consider whether the tilting properties of a tilting A-module T and a tilting B-module T′ can convey to their tensor product T ? T′: The main result is that T ? T′ turns out to be an (n + m)-tilting A ? B-module, where T is an m-tilting A-module and T′ is an n-tilting B-module.