Notes on the subspace perturbation problem for off-diagonal perturbations

Albrecht Seelmann
2016 Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society  
The variation of spectral subspaces for linear self-adjoint operators under an additive bounded off-diagonal perturbation is studied. To this end, the optimization approach for general perturbations in [J. Anal. Math., to appear; arXiv:1310.4360 (2013)] is adapted. It is shown that, in contrast to the case of general perturbations, the corresponding optimization problem can not be reduced to a finite-dimensional problem. A suitable choice of the involved parameters provides an upper bound for
more » ... e solution of the optimization problem. In particular, this yields a rotation bound on the subspaces that is stronger than the previously known one from [J. Reine Angew. Math. (2013), DOI:10.1515/crelle-2013-0099].
doi:10.1090/proc/13118 fatcat:agakrnwshnd65emd4gxfdi4v4u