Bushell's equations and polar decompositions

✍ Scribed by Yongdo Lim

• Book ID: 102492165
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 139 KB
• Volume: 282
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0025-584X
• DOI: 10.1002/mana.200610820

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We show that for any real number t with t ≠ ±1, every invertible operator M on a Hilbert space admits a new polar decomposition M = PUP^–t^ where P is positive definite and U is unitary, and that the corresponding polar map is homeomorphism. The positive definite factor P of M appears as the negative square root of the unique positive definite solution of the nonlinear operator equation X^t^ = M * XM. This extends the classical matrix and operator polar decomposition when t = 0. For t = ± 1, it is shown that the positive definite solution sets of X^±1^ = M * XM form geodesic submanifolds of the Banach–Finsler manifold of positive definite operators and coincide with fixed point sets of certain non‐expansive mappings, respectively (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)