A Partial Order on the Orthogonal Group

Authors

Colum Watt, Technological University DublinFollow
Thomas Brady, Dublin City UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

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Disciplines

1.1 MATHEMATICS

Publication Details

Communications in Algebra, Vol. 30, (2002), no. 8, pp 3749–3754

Abstract

We define a natural partial order on the orthogonal group and completely describe the intervals in this partial order. The main technical ingredient is that an orthogonal transformation induces a unique orthogonal transformation on each subspace of the orthogonal complement of its fixed subspace.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/gbt1-8m22

Recommended Citation

Watt, C., Brady, T. : A Partial Order on the Orthogonal Group. Communications in Algebra, Vol. 30, (2002), no. 8, pp 3749–3754 doi.org/10.21427/gbt1-8m22