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The characteristic function of a complex symmetric contraction

Nicolas Chevrot, Emmanuel Fricain, Dan Timotin

math.FAarXiv:math/0604199

Abstract

It is shown that a contraction on a Hilbert space is complex symmetric if and only if the values of its characteristic function are all symmetric with respect to a fixed conjugation. Applications are given to the description of complex symmetric contractions with defect indices equal to 2.

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