Numerical Range of Lie Product of Operators

作者:Hou, Jinchuan; Li, Chi-Kwong; Qi, Xiaofei*
来源:Integral Equations and Operator Theory, 2015, 83(4): 497-516.
DOI:10.1007/s00020-015-2261-2

摘要

Denote by W(A) the numerical range of a bounded linear operator A, and the Lie product of two operators A and B. Let H,K be complex Hilbert spaces of dimension and be a map whose range contains all operators of rank . It is shown that satisfies that for any if and only if dim H = dim K, there exist , a functional , a unitary operator , and a set of operators in , that consists of operators of the form aP + bI for an orthogonal projection P on H if the dimension of H is at least 3, such that where is the transpose of A with respect to an orthonormal basis of H. The proof of this result depends on the classifications of operators A or operator pairs A, B with some symmetric properties of W([A, B]) that are of independent interest.