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Constructive Proof of the Carpenter's Theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Marcin Bownik  and
John Jasper
Marcin Bownik
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1222, USA e-mail: [email protected]
John Jasper
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-4100, USA e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We give a constructive proof of the carpenter's theorem due to Kadison. Unlike the original proof, our approach also yields the real case of this theorem.

Keywords

42C1547B1546C05diagonals of projectionsthe Schur–Horn theoremthe Pythagorean theoremthe carpenter–s theoremspectral theory
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , 01 September 2014 , pp. 463 - 476
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2014

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