Extensions of a theorem of Fuglede and Putnam
Extensions of a theorem of Fuglede and Putnam
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Fuglede 和 Putnam 定理的推广
DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9939-1978-0487554-2
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发表时间:
1978
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4.5
通讯作者:
S. Berberian
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作者:
S. Berberian
The operator equation AX = XB implies A*X = XB* when A and B are normal (theorem of Fuglede and Putnam). If X is of HilbertSchmidt class, the assumptions on A and B can be relaxed: it suffices that A and B* be hyponormal, or that B be invertible with IIAII l1B -II < 1. The classical Fuglede-Putnam theorem asserts that if A, B, X are operators in a Hilbert space such that AX = XB, and if A and B are normal, then also A *X = XB* [4, Problem 152]. In this note we relax the hypotheses on A and B, at the cost of requiring X to be of Hilbert-Schmidt class. The resulting extensions of the Fuglede-Putnam theorem are perhaps unexciting, although it is somewhat surprising that normality can be dropped; of possibly greater interest is the curious method of proof. Our theorem is as follows: THEOREM. Suppose A, B, X are operators in the Hilbert space H, such that AX= XB. (1) Assume also that X is an operator of Hilbert-Schmidt class. Then A*X= XB* (2) under either of the following hypotheses: (i) A and B* are hyponormal; (ii) B is invertible and JIA I II B -' I < 1. The proof employs what are essentially tensor product techniques. The operators in H of Hilbert-Schmidt class form an ideal SC in the algebra E(H) of all operators in H, and SC is itself a Hilbert space for the inner product (X I Y) = E (Xej I YeL) = Tr( Y* X) = Tr(XY*), where (eL) is any orthonormal basis of H [3, Chapter I, ?6, n06, Corollary of Theorem 5]. (One could identify X with H 0 H, where H, awkwardly, is the conjugate Hilbert space of H; it seems simpler to work directly with SC.) For each pair of operators A, B E E(H), there is defined an operator E E f(JC) via the formula 5YX = AXB (it is suggestive, though not strictly correct, to view 5T as the operator A 0 B). Evidently 11511 < JIA I IIJBII (in fact equality holds, but we do not need it). The adjoint of 5' is given by the formula t * X = A*XB*, as one sees from the calculation (5t*XI Y) = (XJ6JY) = (XIAYB) = Tr(XB*Y*A*) = Tr(A*XB*Y*) = (A*XB*IY). It follows at once that if A and B are both normal (resp. both selfadjoint), then Received by the editors June 2, 1977. AMS (MOS) subject classifications (1970). Primary 47A50; Secondary 47B20. ?' American Mathematical Society 1978