An operator extension of the parallelogram law and related norm inequalities

We establish a general operator parallelogram law concerning a characterization of inner product spaces, get an operator extension of Bohr's inequality and present several norm inequalities. More precisely, let ${\mathfrak A}$ be a $C^*$-algebra, $T$ be a locally compact Hausdorff space equipped with a Radon measure $\mu$ and let $(A_t)_{t\in T}$ be a continuous field of operators in ${\mathfrak A}$ such that the function $t \mapsto A_t$ is norm continuous on $T$ and the function $t \mapsto \|A_t\|$ is integrable. If $\alpha: T \times T \to \mathbb{C}$ is a measurable function such that $\bar{\alpha(t,s)}\alpha(s,t)=1$ for all $t, s \in T$, then we show that \begin{align*} \int_T\int_T&\left|\alpha(t,s) A_t-\alpha(s,t) A_s\right|^2d\mu(t)d\mu(s)+\int_T\int_T\left|\alpha(t,s) B_t-\alpha(s,t) B_s\right|^2d\mu(t)d\mu(s) \nonumber &= 2\int_T\int_T\left|\alpha(t,s) A_t-\alpha(s,t) B_s\right|^2d\mu(t)d\mu(s) - 2\left|\int_T(A_t-B_t)d\mu(t)\right|^2\,. \end{align*}Comment: 9 pages; To appear in Math. Inequal. Appl. (MIA

Hamilton's Turns for the Lorentz Group

Hamilton in the course of his studies on quaternions came up with an elegant geometric picture for the group SU(2). In this picture the group elements are represented by ``turns'', which are equivalence classes of directed great circle arcs on the unit sphere $S^2$, in such a manner that the rule for composition of group elements takes the form of the familiar parallelogram law for the Euclidean translation group. It is only recently that this construction has been generalized to the simplest noncompact group $SU(1,1) = Sp(2, R) = SL(2,R)$, the double cover of SO(2,1). The present work develops a theory of turns for $SL(2,C)$, the double and universal cover of SO(3,1) and $SO(3,C)$, rendering a geometric representation in the spirit of Hamilton available for all low dimensional semisimple Lie groups of interest in physics. The geometric construction is illustrated through application to polar decomposition, and to the composition of Lorentz boosts and the resulting Wigner or Thomas rotation.Comment: 13 pages, Late

Polarimetric Control of Reflective Metasurfaces

This letter addresses the synthesis of reflective cells approaching a given desired Floquet's scattering matrix. This work is motivated by the need to obtain much finer control of reflective metasurfaces by controlling not only their co-polarized reflection but also their cross-coupling behavior. The demonstrated capability will enable more powerful design approaches -involving all field components in phase and magnitude- and consequently better performance in applications involving reflective metasurfaces. We first expose some fundamental theoretical constraints on the cell scattering parameters. Then, a successful procedure for controlling all four scattering parameters by applying parallelogram and trapezoid transformations to square patches is presented, considering both normal and oblique incidence