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04.2.2. Characterizations of Hermitian Projectors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2004

Geert Dhaene and
Luc Lauwers
Geert Dhaene
Affiliation:
Center for Economic Studies, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Luc Lauwers
Affiliation:
Center for Economic Studies, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
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Let P in be a projector with P+ its Moore–Penrose inverse and PH its conjugate transpose. Werner (2002) provides a list of equivalent conditions for P to be Hermitian.

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PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
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Econometric Theory , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 2004, pp. 427
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

Let P in

be a projector with P+ its Moore–Penrose inverse and PH its conjugate transpose. Werner (2002) provides a list of equivalent conditions for P to be Hermitian: (i) P = PPHP, (ii) P+P+ = P+, (iii) P+ = P, and (iv) P+ = PH. Extend this list and show that also condition (a) (resp. (b)) is sufficient and necessary for a projector P to be Hermitian:

(a) the composition PHP is a projector,

(b) the composition PPH is a projector.

References

REFERENCE

Werner, H.J. (2002) Partial isometry and idempotent matrices. Solution 28-7.5. IMAGE, The Bulletin of the International Linear Algebra Society 29, 31–32.Google Scholar