Structure in Reflexive Subspace Lattices
Structure in Reflexive Subspace Lattices
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DOI:
10.1112/jlms/s2-26.1.117
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发表时间:
1982-08
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
F. Gilfeather;D. Larson
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作者:
F. Gilfeather;D. Larson
A formal theory of reflexive lattices of projections (or subspaces) acting on Hilbert space was initiated by PR Halmos [9] in 1970, and substantial progress has since been made by a number of authors in several directions. The purpose of this paper is to address certain structural questions that arise in the study of reflexivity. Motivation for this study came from a desire to characterize the invariant subspace lattice of a nest subalgebra of a von Neumann algebra (nsva) in a tractable fashion. Theorem 3.5 shows that the smallest complete lattice containing a nest and a reflexive (not necessarily commutative) orthogonally complemented lattice commuting pairwise with the nest is a reflexive lattice. A detailed analysis of the manner in which elements of the join lattice can be constructed from elementary constituents is then undertaken.In [2] W. Arveson proved that every commutative subspace lattice acting on separable Hilbert space is reflexive. It is known that completeness, strong closure, and reflexivity are equivalent for separably acting commutative lattices, and so such a subspace lattice can be viewed as the complete lattice generated by an at most countable family of pairwise commuting nests. The question is raised as to whether the word" nests" can be replaced by more general reflexive lattices. In this direction, our study shows that the answer is affirmative in the case of a single nest and a single reflexive ortholattice. The general question seems to be open even for two pairwise commuting reflexive ortholattices.