Measurability of spectral sublevel projectors #
For a measurable family of self-adjoint real matrices, the orthogonal projection onto the
eigenspace for eigenvalues ≤ t is measurable in the parameter. Since this projector is the
continuous functional calculus of the discontinuous indicator Set.indicator (Set.Iic t) 1,
measurability is obtained by approximating the indicator from above by continuous downward ramps
gApprox t m, whose CFCs are measurable, and passing to the entrywise pointwise limit. The main
results are measurable_spectralProjector and its specialization measurable_slowProjector to
the sanitized Oseledets limit lambdaHat.
Uniform convergence on the finite spectrum: on a finite set, the eventual pointwise equality of
gApprox t m with the indicator upgrades to uniform convergence.
Spectral CFC convergence. For a self-adjoint matrix M, the continuous CFCs of the
ramp gApprox t m converge (in the matrix topology) to the CFC of the discontinuous indicator.
For a measurable family M : X → matrix of self-adjoint real matrices, the spectral sublevel
projector x ↦ cfc (Set.indicator (Set.Iic t) 1) (M x) — the orthogonal projection onto the ≤ t
eigenspace — is measurable. The indicator is discontinuous, so this is obtained as the entrywise
pointwise limit of the measurable continuous-CFC ramps cfc (gApprox t m) (M x).
Measurability of the slow (sublevel) spectral projector family
x ↦ slowProjector A T t x = cfc (indicator (Iic t) 1) (lambdaHat A T x), obtained by composing
the spectral-projector measurability with the measurability and everywhere self-adjointness of the
sanitized Oseledets limit lambdaHat.