Compact averaging of a rank-one operator

ID: compact-averaging-of-a-rank-one-operator

For a strongly continuous unitary representation of a compact group, this Bochner integral exists in the Hilbert-Schmidt norm and is a positive compact operator commuting with the representation. It is nonzero if , because . A nonzero eigenspace is finite-dimensional and invariant. Applying this on orthogonal complements yields an orthogonal direct sum of finite-dimensional irreducible representations, with no separability assumption on the represented Hilbert space.

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