Riccati Equations and the Third Problem of Halmos
Abstract
Rencently, Fang, Hou, Jiang, and Zhang reduced Halmos's third problem to invertible operators with conjugate bi-geometric form. An operator has such a form if, with respect to an orthogonal decomposition, it admits a representation T = A & C 0 & B , A*, B ∈ B1(Oδ), where Oδ={z∈ℂ:|z|<δ} for some δ>0, and B1(Oδ) denotes the rank-one Cowen--Douglas class. We restrict our attention to the case B=A* with strictly positive coupling C, and settle Halmos's third problem for this class of operators. More precisely,we prove that every such operator T is invertible and that T−1 has a nontrivial closed invariant subspace. This result contributes to the study of Halmos's third problem within the conjugate bi-geometric framework.The proof combines monotone solutions of operator Riccati equations with strong operator convergence to construct invariant subspaces for associated Hamiltonian operator matrices.
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BibTeX
@misc{ji2026riccati,
title = {{Riccati Equations and the Third Problem of Halmos}},
author = {Kui Ji and Zhenyue Wang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.39605},
eprint = {2610.39605},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39605},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Riccati Equations and the Third Problem of Halmos
AU - Kui Ji
AU - Zhenyue Wang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.39605
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39605
AB - Rencently, Fang, Hou, Jiang, and Zhang reduced Halmos's third problem to invertible operators with conjugate bi-geometric form. An operator has such a form if, with respect to an orthogonal decomposition, it admits a representation T = A & C 0 & B , A^*, B ∈ B_1(O_δ), where O_δ={z∈ℂ:|z|<δ} for some δ>0, and B_1(O_δ) denotes the rank-one Cowen--Douglas class. We restrict our attention to the case B=A^* with strictly positive coupling C, and settle Halmos's third problem for this class of operators. More precisely,we prove that every such operator T is invertible and that T^−1 has a nontrivial closed invariant subspace. This result contributes to the study of Halmos's third problem within the conjugate bi-geometric framework.The proof combines monotone solutions of operator Riccati equations with strong operator convergence to construct invariant subspaces for associated Hamiltonian operator matrices.
ER -