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Analytic bundle structure on the idempotent manifold

Let $X$ be a (real or complex) Banach space, and $\mathcal{I}(X)$ be the set of all (non-zero and non-identity) idempotents; i.e., bounded linear operators on $X$ whose squares equal themselves. We show that the Banach submanifold $\mathcal{I}(X)$ of $\mathcal{L}(X)$ is a locally trivial analytic affine-Banach bundle over the Grassmann manifold $\mathscr{G}(X)$, via the map $κ$ that sends $Q\in \mathcal{I}(X)$ to $Q(X)$, such that the affine-Banach space structure on each fiber is the one induced from $\mathcal{L}(X)$ (in particular, every fiber is an affine-Banach subspace of $\mathcal{L}(X)$). Using this, we show that if $K$ is a real Hilbert space, then the assignment $$(E,T)\mapsto T^*\circ P_{E^\bot} + P_{E}, \quad \text{ where } E\in \mathscr{G}(K)\text{ and } T\in \mathcal{L}(E,E^\bot),$$ induces a bi-analytic bijection from the total space of the tangent bundle, $\mathbf{T}(\mathscr{G}(K))$, of $\mathscr{G}(K)$ onto $\mathcal{I}(K)$ (here, $E^\bot$ is the orthogonal complement of $E$, $P_E\in \mathcal{L}(K)$ is the orthogonal projection onto $E$, and $T^*$ is the adjoint of $T$). Notice that this bi-analytic bijection is an affine map on each tangent plane.