We study projections onto a subspace and reflections with respect to a subspace in an arbitrary vector space with an inner product. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for two such transformations to commute. ...We study projections onto a subspace and reflections with respect to a subspace in an arbitrary vector space with an inner product. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for two such transformations to commute. We then generalize the result to affine subspaces and transformations.展开更多
文摘We study projections onto a subspace and reflections with respect to a subspace in an arbitrary vector space with an inner product. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for two such transformations to commute. We then generalize the result to affine subspaces and transformations.