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A "typical" contraction is unitary

Tanja Eisner

Published 2008-07-12Version 1

We show that (for the weak operator topology) the set of unitary operators on a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space is residual in the set of all contractions. The analogous result holds for isometries and the strong operator topology as well. These results are applied to the problem of embedding operators into strongly continuous semigroups.

Comments: 5 pages
Journal: Enseign. Math. (2) 56 (2010), 403-410
Categories: math.FA, math.DS
Subjects: 47A05, 47D06, 37A05
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