Veranstaltungskalender der Universität Osnabrück >> August 2013 >> Angemeldet als: Gast

Titel: Prof. Marcin Bownik, PhD (University of Oregon): The Pythagorean Theorem for Orthogonal Projections
Startdatum/-zeit:: 21.04.2010 17:15
Enddatum/-zeit: 21.04.2010
Veranstalter:
Adresse: Fachbereich Mathematik/ Informatik, Institut für Mathematik
Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok
Albrechtstr. 28a
49076 Osnabrück
Telefon: 0541 - 969 - 3516
Telefax: 0541 - 969 - 2770
E-Mail: kutyniok@uos.de
Homepage: http://www.mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de/kolloquium.html
Veranstaltungsort:
Adresse: Institut für Mathematik
Institut für Mathematik, Geb. 69/ Raum 125
Albrechtstr. 28a, 49076 Osnabrück
Beschreibung: The Pythagorean Theorem should be known to everyone after completing elementary school. However, its generalization for orthogonal projections might not be widely known among professional mathematicians due to the fact that it was proved only a few years ago. This theorem characterizes diagonals of orthogonal projections in Hilbert spaces and it was shown in 2002 by Kadison. For finitely dimensional spaces this result is a consequence of a more general Schur-Horn Theorem characterizing diagonals of Hermitian matrices with prescribed eigenvalues. In the finite dimensional case diagonals of a projection are numbers between 0 and 1 summing up to an integer. However, the infinite dimensional case, though simple in formulation, is a much deeper result. In this talk we shall describe Kadison's theorem and some newer results characterizing diagonals of self-adjoint operators with prescribed spectrum.
Kategorie: Mathematisches Kolloquium