Noncommutative functional calculus. Theory and applications of slice hyperholomorphic functions (Q626094)

This book is a systematic account of the authors' original recent research. The topic is an analytic functional calculus of several self-adjoint operators, which is based on a variant of hypercomplex analysis in the quaternionic and Clifford algebra setting. Chapter~1 of the book contains an introduction and overview of the book's contents. Chapter~2 is devoted to the theory of slice monogenic Clifford algebra-valued functions. For any unit vector \((x_1, x_2,\dots,x_n)\in{\mathbb R}^n\), the authors construct an element \(I=x_1 e_1+x_2 e_2+\dots +x_n e_n\) of the Clifford algebra \({\mathbb R}_n\) with generators \(e_i\) such that \(e_ie_j+e_je_i=-2\delta_{ij}\). Then \(I^2=-1\) and the two-dimensional plane \(C_I\subset{\mathbb R}^{n+1}\) spanned by \(1\) and \(I\) is isomorphic to the complex plane \(\mathbb C\). Let a differentiable Clifford-valued function \(f\) be defined on an open subset \(U\in {\mathbb R}^{n+1}\); the authors denote by \(f_I(u+Iv)\) its restriction to a plane \(C_I\). Then \(f\) is slice monogenic if for all \(I\) we have a Cauchy-Riemann type identity: \[ \left({\partial \over \partial u}+I{\partial \over \partial v}\right) f_I(u+Iv)=0. \] Thus a slice monogenic function \(f\) generates a vector-valued complex analytic function \(f_I\) for each \(I\). This allows to reconstruct an essential part of analytic function theory which includes a power series expansion, two variants of the Cauchy integral, etc. All of them are formulated in terms of two-dimensional planes \(C_I\), therefore there are not so many non-commutativity issues as in the theory of monogenic Clifford valued functions, cf. [\textit{F. Brackx, R. Delanghe} and \textit{F. Sommen}, Clifford analysis. Research Notes in Mathematics, 76. Boston - London - Melbourne: Pitman Advanced Publishing Program (1982; Zbl 0529.30001)]. Chapter~3 presents functional calculus bases on slice monogenic functions. For an \(n\)-tuple \((T_1,T_2,\dots,T_n)\) of self-adjoint (possibly non-commuting) operators on a space \(V\), one can introduce the composite operator \(T=\sum e_j T_j\) in the respective Banach module \(V\otimes {\mathbb R}_n\). Then the function \(f(T)\) is defined by the Cauchy type integral, where \(T\) replaces the variable \(x\in{\mathbb R}^n\) in the Cauchy kernel. The calculus is built both for bounded and unbounded operators and contains all essential components: spectrum, spectral mapping theorem, etc. Chapter~4 presents a variant of theory for quaternions, which can be viewed as a special (but important!) case of Clifford algebras. Analogs of results from Chapters~2 and~3 are presented here with an additional consideration of quaternionic semigroups. The final Chapter~5 is an appendix covering the standard (Gelfand-) Riesz-Dunford analytic functional calculus, which is the useful reference point for the main text of the book.