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Positive Definite Sequence of Operators and a Fixed Point Theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

A. T. Dash*
Affiliation:
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
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The purpose of this note is to prove the following:

Theorem. Let {An} be a positive definite sequence of operators on a Hilbert space H with A0=1. If A1f=f for some f in H, then Anf=f for all n.

Note that a bilateral sequence of operators {An:n = 0, ±1, ±2,…} on H is positive definite if

for every finitely nonzero sequence {fn} of vectors in H [1].

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1972

References

1. Riesz, F. and Sz.-Nagy, B., Appendix to functional analysis, Ungar, New York.Google Scholar