Parallel Addition and Parallel Subtraction of Operators
Abstract
The parallel sum A:B of two invertible nonnegative operators A and B in a Hilbert space \mathfrak{H} is the operator (A^{-1}+B^{-1})^{-1}=A(A+B^{-1})B. This definition was extended to noninvertible operators by Anderson and Duffin for the case \dim \mathfrak{H} < \infty and by Fillmore and Williams for the general case.The investigation of parallel addition is continued in this paper; in particular, associativity is proved.Criteria are established for solvability of the equation A:X=S with an unknown operator X when A and S are given. In the case of solvability, the existence of a minimal solution S \div A, called the parallel difference, is proved.Parallel subtraction in a finite-dimensional space is considered in the last section.Bibliography: 11 titles.
- Publication:
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Izvestiya: Mathematics
- Pub Date:
- April 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1070/IM1976v010n02ABEH001694
- Bibcode:
- 1976IzMat..10..351P