Complementarity from two directed subspace angles
ID: complementarity-from-two-directed-subspace-angles
For closed subspaces of a Hilbert space, set . The two positive cosines bound and its adjoint operator below. The first bound gives a closed range and injectivity; the second makes the range dense by image-kernel orthogonality for an adjoint. Thus is a bounded bijection, and yields the unique direct sum decomposition . In equal finite dimensions, a lower bound on alone suffices by the rank-nullity theorem.
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