Orbits of Positive Operators from a Differentiable Viewpoint

Let be a unital C^*-algebra and G the group of units of . A geometrical study of the action of G over the set ⁺ of all positive elements of is presented. The orbits of elements with closed range by this action are provided with a structure of differentiable homogeneous space with a natural connection. The orbits are partitioned in 'components' which also have a rich geometrical structure.     

Weighted Generalized Inverses,Oblique Projections,and Least-Squares Problems

A generalization with singular weights of Moore–Penrose generalized inverses of closed range operators in Hilbert spaces is studied using the notion of compatibility of subspaces and positive operators.     

Projections in operator ranges

If is a Hilbert space, is a positive bounded linear operator on and is a closed subspace of , the relative position between and establishes a notion of compatibility. We show that the compatibility of is equivalent to the existence of a convenient orthogonal projection in the operator range with its canonical Hilbertian structure.

     

Differential structure of the Thompson components of selfadjoint operators

Different equivalence relations are defined in the set of selfadjoint operators of a Hilbert space in order to extend a very well known relation in the cone of positive operators. As in the positive case, for the equivalence class admits a differential structure, which is compatible with a complete metric defined on . This metric coincides with the Thompson metric when is positive.

     

Schur Complements in Krein Spaces

The aim of this work is to generalize the notions of Schur complements and shorted operators to Krein spaces. Given a (bounded) J-selfadjoint operator A (with the unique factorization property) acting on a Krein space and a suitable closed subspace of , the Schur complement of A to is defined. The basic properties of are developed and different characterizations are given, most of them resembling those of the shorted of (bounded) positive operators on a Hilbert space. To the memory of Professor Mischa Cotlar     

Normal Projections in Krein Spaces

Given a complex Krein space ${\mathcal{H}}$ with fundamental symmetry J, the aim of this note is to characterize the set of J-normal projections $$\mathcal{Q}=\{Q \in L(\mathcal{H}) : Q^2=Q \,{\rm and}\, Q^{\#}Q=QQ^{\#}\}.$$ The ranges of the projections in ${\mathcal{Q}}$ are exactly those subspaces of ${\mathcal{H}}$ which are pseudo-regular. For a fixed pseudo-regular subspace ${\mathcal{S}}$ , there are infinitely many J-normal projections onto it, unless ${\mathcal{S}}$ is regular. Therefore, most of the material herein is devoted to parametrizing the set of J-normal projections onto a fixed pseudo-regular subspace ${\mathcal{S}}$ .     

Abstract splines in Krein spaces

We present generalizations to Krein spaces of the abstract interpolation and smoothing problems proposed by Atteia in Hilbert spaces: given a Krein space K and Hilbert spaces H and E (bounded) surjective operators T:H→K and V:H→E, ρ>0 and a fixed z₀∈E, we study the existence of solutions of the problems and .