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Aug 10, 2020 at 0:58 vote accept Ruy
Jul 31, 2020 at 2:34 answer added Ruy timeline score: 0
Jul 30, 2020 at 21:11 comment added Ruy @vidyarthi, here are two results from Halmos' "A Hilbert Space Problem Book", which say that the two characterizations are equivalent: (Problem 127) A bounded linear transformation $U$ is a partial isometry if and only if $U^*U$ is a projection, and (Corollary 3) A bounded linear transformation $U$ is a partial isometry if and only if $U = UU^*U$.
Jul 30, 2020 at 21:09 comment added vidyarthi @ChrisRamsey see my answer now.
Jul 30, 2020 at 20:45 comment added Chris Ramsey @vidyarthi Any doubly stochastic idempotent will be a partial isometry. The OP gives a description of the idempotents and most are not permutations.
Jul 30, 2020 at 20:40 comment added vidyarthi @ChrisRamsey But I think the equation in the question describes an isometry. I think the right equation is $(AA^t)^2=AA^t$, right?
Jul 30, 2020 at 20:17 answer added vidyarthi timeline score: -1
Jul 30, 2020 at 16:16 history edited Chris Ramsey
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Jul 29, 2020 at 17:52 history asked Ruy CC BY-SA 4.0