Strongly Reflexive Lattices
Strongly Reflexive Lattices
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DOI:
10.1112/jlms/s2-11.4.491
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发表时间:
1974-09
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
BY W. E. Longstaff
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作者:
BY W. E. Longstaff
1. Introduction. If if is a (complex) Hubert space and F is any collection of (closed linear) subspaces of H 9 Alg F is used to denote the set of (bounded linear) operators on H that leave every member of F invariant. Dually, if 9t is a set of operators on H, Lat 9t is used to denote the collection of subspaces of H left invariant by every member of 91. The collection F of subspaces is called reflexive if ^=LatAlg^. If F is reflexive it is easy to show that IF is a complete sublattice, containing both the zero subspace (0) and H, of the lattice of all subspaces of H. In fact, if F is reflexive it is strongly closed [2]. It is easily seen that a given collection F of subspaces will be reflexive if a subset M ç Alg F can be found with the property that ^=Lat 0t. In the case that J^ is a complete nest, the set of operators of rank one of Alg F is such a subset [4]. Such a subset can also be found in the case that F is either a complete atomic Boolean algebra [2] or a finite distributive lattice [3]. Thus complete nests, complete atomic Boolean algebras and finite distributive lattices of subspaces are examples of reflexive subspace lattices. In this paper we indicate how these results follow from one and the same theory of abstract lattices. This theory of strongly reflexive lattices leads to new examples of reflexive subspace lattices. It develops from and is motivated by the question: Which lattices of subspaces F are determined by the set 0t of operators of rank one of Alg F in the sense that F=L Ml The author wishes to thank Dr. W. H. Cornish for helpful conversations during the preparation of this paper and Professor P. R. Halmos for comments on its presentation.