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Cyclicity of the trace
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()). Let be a real or complex Hilbert space (Hilbert space), let be trace class (Trace class operator) and let be bounded. Then and are trace class and If are Hilbert–Schmidt relative to a supplied Hilbert basis of (Hilbert–Schmidt operator and Hilbert–Schmidt norm), then the products and are trace class and
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, a Hilbert space , a trace-class , a bounded , and Hilbert–Schmidt relative to a supplied basis .
Trace and its properties. Every trace-class has a nuclear representation and a well-defined trace. For every supplied Hilbert basis , that trace equals the absolutely convergent diagonal sum . It is equal to for every nuclear representation , with and linearity in the trace-class variable; (Trace is absolutely convergent and basis independent, Trace class operator, Nuclear series characterizes trace norm, Trace of a trace class operator).
Trace ideal. Bounded one-sided multiplication preserves trace class, and (Trace class is a two sided Banach operator ideal).
Hilbert–Schmidt products. An operator which is Hilbert–Schmidt relative to a supplied basis is compact. Thus and are compact, and their bounded composites and are compact; the product clause of the factorization theorem then makes both products trace class and gives (Hilbert–Schmidt operators are compact, Compositions with a compact operator are compact, Trace class iff product of two Hilbert Schmidt operators, Hilbert Schmidt operators form a two sided ideal).
SVD and adjoints. The SVD uses only positive singular-value indices, with numerical zero padding beyond finite rank, and its partial sums converge in operator norm. The adjoint is bounded with , and the identity holds (Singular value decomposition for compact operators, Absolute value and singular values of a compact operator, Hilbert-adjoint identities, The Hilbert-space adjoint of a bounded operator).
Parseval and absolute convergence. Parseval's identity holds for supplied Hilbert bases; the finite-subset suprema of nonnegative families may be interchanged; absolutely summable scalar families are summable; and finite Cauchy–Schwarz bounds coefficient sums (Parseval equivalences for an orthonormal family, The finite Bessel inequality and best approximation by a finite orthonormal family, Square-summable families on an arbitrary index set and the space , Cauchy–Schwarz: , with equality exactly for dependent pairs, Real and complex inner-product spaces and their induced length, Orthonormal families, complete orthonormal systems and Hilbert bases, The operator norm as the least bound and as the unit-sphere or unit-ball supremum, A bounded linear operator between normed spaces, Convergence of a sequence in a metric space: iff in ).
Proof
Given: Countable Choice, the trace-class , bounded , Hilbert–Schmidt relative to .
Products are trace class. and are trace class by [A2] with and .
Cyclicity for rank-one operators. Let for fixed , so that is trace class; then and are nuclear representations with one term, so by [A1] and , and these are equal by the adjoint identity of [A4].
The Hilbert–Schmidt case. Write for , so that basis elements and indices are unambiguous. Let be Hilbert–Schmidt relative to the supplied basis ; by [A3] the products and are trace class. Since is continuous and is a Hilbert basis, for every , and the double family with , has finite total, , by two applications of finite Cauchy–Schwarz, Bessel and Parseval [A5]; For detail, on each finite rectangle , finite Cauchy–Schwarz bounds the absolute sum by , using Bessel in the inner sums. Every finite set of pairs lies in a finite rectangle. The full absolute sum is therefore finite; outside a finite rectangle its tail is arbitrarily small by [A5], which proves that both iterated scalar sums have the same value as the double-family sum. Invoking the diagonal trace formula in [A1] for the trace-class products, , the last equality by the symmetric computation for .
Cyclicity for general trace-class operators. By [A1] take a nuclear representation with and partial sums for , so and in operator norm. Then and : both errors are at most by the operator-norm bound. Their terms give nuclear representations and . Their sums of norm products are at most and , respectively. Both products are already trace class by step 1.1, so [A1] gives by [A4], term by term in absolutely convergent series. No ambient Hilbert basis is used in this part.
Conclusion. The general cyclicity statement is [step 2.1] with [step 1.1], and the Hilbert–Schmidt statement is [step 1.3].
Depends on
- Trace is absolutely convergent and basis independent
- Trace class is a two sided Banach operator ideal
- Trace class iff product of two Hilbert Schmidt operators
- Nuclear series characterizes trace norm
- Trace of a trace class operator
- Trace class operator
- Absolute value and singular values of a compact operator
- Singular value decomposition for compact operators
- Hilbert Schmidt operators form a two sided ideal
- Hilbert–Schmidt operators are compact
- Hilbert–Schmidt operator and Hilbert–Schmidt norm
- Compositions with a compact operator are compact
- Hilbert-adjoint identities
- The Hilbert-space adjoint of a bounded operator
- Parseval equivalences for an orthonormal family
- The finite Bessel inequality and best approximation by a finite orthonormal family
- Cauchy–Schwarz: $|\langle x,y\rangle|\le\|x\|\,\|y\|$, with equality exactly for dependent pairs
- Orthonormal families, complete orthonormal systems and Hilbert bases
- Square-summable families on an arbitrary index set and the space $\ell^2(I)$
- Real and complex inner-product spaces and their induced length
- Hilbert space
- The operator norm as the least bound and as the unit-sphere or unit-ball supremum
- A bounded linear operator between normed spaces
- Convergence of a sequence in a metric space: $x_k \to x$ iff $d(x_k, x) \to 0$ in $\mathbb{R}$
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
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Sources
- Gerald Teschl, Topics in Real and Functional Analysis, version November 17, 2017 — §3.6, Lemma 3.28 (printed pp. 98–99) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Anthony W. Knapp, Advanced Real Analysis — Chapter II, §5, cyclicity exercises (standard reference, not scraped)