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The spectral theorem for compact self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space H states that H splits into an orthogonal direct sum of the eigenspaces of an operator, and also gives an explicit decomposition of the operator as a sum of projections onto the eigenspaces.
If is a closed vector subspace of a Hilbert space then [3] = = where = is called the orthogonal decomposition of into and and it indicates that is a complemented subspace of with complement . Properties
In the case of the compact Riemann surface C / Λ, the theory of Sobolev spaces shows that the Hilbert space completion of smooth 1-forms can be decomposed as the sum of three pairwise orthogonal spaces, the closure of exact 1-forms df, the closure of coexact 1-forms ∗df and the harmonic 1-forms (the 2-dimensional space of constant 1-forms).
In mathematical functional analysis a partial isometry is a linear map between Hilbert spaces such that it is an isometry on the orthogonal complement of its kernel. The orthogonal complement of its kernel is called the initial subspace and its range is called the final subspace. Partial isometries appear in the polar decomposition.
If a normal operator T on a finite-dimensional real [clarification needed] or complex Hilbert space (inner product space) H stabilizes a subspace V, then it also stabilizes its orthogonal complement V ⊥. (This statement is trivial in the case where T is self-adjoint.) Proof. Let P V be the orthogonal projection onto V.
A special case of this decomposition is the Wold decomposition for an isometry, where Γ is a proper isometry. Contractions on Hilbert spaces can be viewed as the operator analogs of cos θ and are called operator angles in some contexts. The explicit description of contractions leads to (operator-)parametrizations of positive and unitary matrices.
In the mathematical discipline of functional analysis, the concept of a compact operator on Hilbert space is an extension of the concept of a matrix acting on a finite-dimensional vector space; in Hilbert space, compact operators are precisely the closure of finite-rank operators (representable by finite-dimensional matrices) in the topology induced by the operator norm.
The resulting direct sum is a Hilbert space which contains the given Hilbert spaces as mutually orthogonal subspaces. If infinitely many Hilbert spaces H i {\displaystyle H_{i}} for i ∈ I {\displaystyle i\in I} are given, we can carry out the same construction; notice that when defining the inner product, only finitely many summands will be ...