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Majorisation and the Carpenter’s Theorem

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We discuss Kadison’s Carpenter’s Theorems in the context of their relation to majorisation, and we offer a new proof of his striking characterisation of the set of diagonals of orthogonal projections on Hilbert space.

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Argerami, M. Majorisation and the Carpenter’s Theorem. Integr. Equ. Oper. Theory 82, 33–49 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00020-014-2180-7

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