Spectral projection over ℝ via complexification #
Why this file is needed: it supplies the real spectral projection
(exists_spectral_projection_real); the uniform RCLike projection in Representation reduces
every field to this real case via realification.
The spectral-projection construction (exists_spectral_projection_complex) lives over ℂ,
because the continuous functional calculus on H →L[𝕜] H is only available for 𝕜 = ℂ. This
file transfers it to a real Hilbert space H₁ by complexifying.
Given S : H₁ →L[ℝ] H₂, complexify to Sℂ : Cℂ H₁ →L[ℂ] Cℂ H₂. The complex projection Eℂ
commutes with conjugation — this is the formal content of "a self-adjoint operator has real
spectrum": the strengthened exists_spectral_projection_complex returns commutation of Eℂ with
every ℝ-linear map commuting with Sℂ*Sℂ, and conjugation is such a map (since Sℂ*Sℂ is a
complexification). Hence Eℂ maps the real subspace range ofReal into itself, and restricts to
a real operator E inheriting the two operator-norm bounds.
Spectral projection of S*S (over ℝ). The real analogue of
exists_spectral_projection_complex, obtained by complexifying and restricting the conjugation-
invariant complex projection.