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Show that there are linear operators T on the Hilbert space H what are not orthogonal projections, but their spectrum consists of the eigenvalues $\{0,1\}.$

I can not come up with an counterexample, but I suppose it must be infinite dimension? Hilbert spaces has orthogonal bases and I did an exersice showing that for projections $T'(T-I) = 0$ So obviously $T \neq TT'$, is zero some kind of accumulation point?

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$\begin{pmatrix}0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 57 \\ 0 & 0 & 1\end{pmatrix}$

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    Oh it was this easy! thanks!2012-12-13
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To complement Nate Eldredge's example, it might be more interesting to consider operators that are projections, but not orthogonal projections. We can rephrase this in terms of the SVD: An orthogonal projection is an operator $T$ such that $T^2 = T$, and such that the singular values of $T$ are each either $0$ or $1$.

A non-orthogonal projection, also called an oblique projection, is one for which $T^2 = T$, but the singular values of $T$ may not belong to $\{0,1\}$. Consider this example: $ A = \begin{bmatrix} 0 & 1 \\ 0 & 1 \end{bmatrix}$ We can check that $A^2 = A$, so this is a projection, but it is not an orthogonal projection, since $ A^* A = \begin{bmatrix} 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 2 \end{bmatrix}$