Positive sesquilinear form measures and generalized eigenvalue expansions (Q2381937)

The authors study positive operator measures (with values in the space of bounded operators defined on a separable Hilbert space) and their generalizations. First, the authors discuss preliminaries on sesquilinear form measures in an abstract vector space, and then they prove general representation theorems. The obtained results are specialized to spectral measures of normal operators. In particular, it is shown that functionals in a suitable direct integral expansion can be interpreted as generalized eigenvectors of the considered normal operators. The relationship between the spectrum of an operator and the set of complex numbers eligible as generalized eigenvalues is discussed.