Within each fixed unitary irreducible representation, choose the selected right singular vectors to be orthonormal. Their corresponding left singular vectors are also orthonormal, even when a singular value is repeated: choose an orthonormal basis in each eigenspace of and put . Therefore, when ,
This is (iv), with the unnormalized Hilbert-Schmidt inner product and the Kronecker delta. No orthogonality of differently shaped matrices is being asserted.
For the unheaded continuation, partition into blocks . Then
The Schur averaging of rectangular matrices formula is
for any matrix . The average is an intertwiner; the Schur lemma makes it zero for inequivalent irreducible representations, and a scalar multiple of the identity for the same representative. The trace determines that scalar in the latter case.
Apply this with . The Hilbert-Schmidt inner product normalization just proved gives
Expanding the squared Euclidean norm now yields
Thus the final identity follows from averaging, although itself need not be the identity. The whole construction is the spectral inverse theorem for the matrix-valued U2 quantity.
If and , select the singular values of the matrix Fourier blocks. Their weighted count lies between and . Scaling unit right singular vectors and their corresponding unit left singular vectors by gives matrices satisfying and Hilbert-Schmidt inner product orthogonality within each chosen irreducible representation. The Schur averaging of rectangular matrices then gives for the concatenated and the corresponding block diagonal matrix .