陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「Finitary consequences of the invariant subspace problem」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

One of the most notorious open problems in functional analysis is the invariant subspace problem for Hilbert spaces, which I will state here as a conjecture:

Conjecture 1 (Invariant Subspace Problem, ISP0) Let be an infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space, and let be a bounded linear operator. Then contains a proper closed invariant subspace (thus ).

已知结果和反例

As stated this conjecture is quite infinitary in nature. Just for fun, I set myself the task of trying to find an equivalent reformulation of this conjecture that only involved finite-dimensional spaces and operators. This turned out to be somewhat difficult, but not entirely impossible, if one adopts a sufficiently generous version of “finitary” (cf. my discussion of how to finitise the infinitary pigeonhole principle). Unfortunately, the finitary formulation that I arrived

I should point out that the arguments here are quite “soft” in nature and are not really addressing the heart of the invariant subspace problem; but I think it is still of interest to observe that this problem is not purely an infinitary problem, and does have some non-trivial finitary consequences.

证明或构造的主线

I am indebted to Henry Towsner for many discussions on this topic.

The first reduction is to get rid of the closed invariant subspace , as this will be the most difficult object to finitise. We rephrase ISP0 as

阅读时建议盯住的点

Conjecture 2 (Invariant Subspace Problem, ISP1) Let be an infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space, and let be a bounded linear operator. Then there exist unit vectors such that for all natural numbers .

Indeed, to see that ISP1 implies ISP0, we simply take to be the closed invariant subspace generated by the orbit , which is proper since it is orthogonal to . To see that ISP0 implies ISP1, we let be an arbitrary unit vector in the invariant subspace , and be an arbitrary unit vector in the orthogonal complement .

值得单独记下的条目

• (i) Every contraction is -tight with respect to at least one growth function .
• (ii) If is a growth function and is a sequence of -tight contractions, then there exists a subsequence which converges in the strong operator topology to an -tight contraction . Furthermore, the adjoints converge in the strong operator topo
• (i) Every unit vector is -tight with respect to at least one increasing sequence . In fact any finite number of unit vectors can be made -tight with the same increasing sequence .
• (ii) If , and for each , is a -tight unit vector, then there exists a subsequence of that converges strongly to an -tight unit vector .
• (i) Every infinite sequence of natural numbers has at least one initial segment in ; and
• (ii) If is a sequence in , then no initial segment with lies in .
• The family of all tuples of increasing natural numbers with ;
• The family of all tuples of increasing natural numbers with ;

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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