TY - JOUR ID - Giribet2018 LB - Giribet2018 AU - Giribet, Juan AU - Langer, Matthias AU - Leben, Leslie AU - Maestripieri, Alejandra AU - Martínez Pería, Francisco AU - Trunk, Carsten TI - Spectrum of J-frame operators ST - Spectrum of J-frame operators JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2018 VL - 38 IS - 5 SP - 623 EP - 649 DO - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2018.38.5.623 UR - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2018.38.5.623 AB - A \(J\)-frame is a frame \(\mathcal{F}\) for a Krein space \((\mathcal{H},[\cdot,\cdot ])\) which is compatible with the indefinite inner product \([\cdot,\cdot ]\) in the sense that it induces an indefinite reconstruction formula that resembles those produced by orthonormal bases in \(\mathcal{H}\). With every \(J\)-frame the so-called \(J\)-frame operator is associated, which is a self-adjoint operator in the Krein space \(\mathcal{H}\). The \(J\)-frame operator plays an essential role in the indefinite reconstruction formula. In this paper we characterize the class of \(J\)-frame operators in a Krein space by a \(2\times 2\) block operator representation. The \(J\)-frame bounds of \(\mathcal{F}\) are then recovered as the suprema and infima of the numerical ranges of some uniformly positive operators which are build from the entries of the \(2\times 2\) block representation. Moreover, this \(2\times 2\) block representation is utilized to obtain enclosures for the spectrum of \(J\)-frame operators, which finally leads to the construction of a square root. This square root allows a complete description of all \(J\)-frames associated with a given \(J\)-frame operator. KW - frame KW - Krein space KW - block operator matrix KW - spectrum SN - 1232-9274 ER -