Some new perturbation bounds of the positive (semi) definite polar factor and the (sub) unitary polar factor for the (generalized) polar decomposition under the general unitarily invariant norm and the spectral norm are presented. By applying our new bounds to the weighted cases, the known perturbation bounds for the weighted polar decomposition are improved. 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reser...

Given two chains of subspaces in C, we study the set of unitary matrices that map the subspaces in the first chain onto the corresponding subspaces in the second chain, and minimize the value ‖U− In‖ for various unitarily invariant norms ‖ · ‖ on Cn×n. In particular, we give formula for the minimum value ‖U − In‖, and describe the set of all the unitary matrices in the set attaining the minimum...

We establish the orthogonality of the range and the kernel of a normal derivation with respect to the unitarily invariant norms associated with norm ideals of operators. Related orthogonality results for certain nonnormal derivations are also given.

Given two chains of subspaces in C, the set of those unitary matrices is studied that map the subspaces in the first chain onto the corresponding subspaces in the second chain, and minimize the value ‖U − In‖ for various unitarily invariant norms ‖ · ‖ on Cn×n. In particular, a formula for the minimum value ‖U − In‖ is given, and the set of all the unitary matrices in the set attaining the mini...