Abstract
In this paper we apply Maxwell's principle to give simple proofs of the properties of R: S, the parallel sum of two positive semi-definite linear operators. The parallel sum has been studied by Anderson, Ando, Duffin, Fillmore, Mitra, Williams, and others. In particular we give a short, elementary, and geometric proof of the result of Anderson and Duffin that gives the infimum of two orthogonal projections as twice their parallel sum.
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