Quasi-Carleman operators and their spectral properties

DOI10.1007/S00020-014-2179-0MaRDI QIDQ2342941zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 30 April 2015

Published in Integral Equations and Operator Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.6742

Carleman operator Laplace transform positivity sigma-function singular Hankel operators total numbers of negative eigenvalues

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Scattering theory of linear operators (47A40) Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25)

Abstract: The Carleman operator is defined as integral operator with kernel

(t + s)^{- 1}

in the space

L^{2} ({B b b R}_{+})

. This is the simplest example of a Hankel operator which can be explicitly diagonalized. Here we study a class of self-adjoint Hankel operators (we call them quasi-Carleman operators) generalizing the Carleman operator in various directions. We find explicit formulas for the total number of negative eigenvalues of quasi-Carleman operators and, in particular, necessary and sufficient conditions for their positivity. Our approach relies on the concepts of the sigma-function and of the quasi-diagonalization of Hankel operators introduced in the preceding paper of the author.

Review text

The paper is devoted to the study of quasi-Carleman operators, that is, Hankel operators \[ (Hf)(t)=\int_0^\infty h(t+s)f(s)\,ds \] with kernels of the form \(h(t)=(t+r)^{-q}e^{-\alpha t}\), where \(r\geq 0\) and \(\alpha,q\) are real numbers. The first goal is to define operators \(H\) as (unbounded) self-adjoint operators on the space \(L^2({\mathbb R}_+)\). Sufficient conditions guaranteeing that the form \((Hf,f)\) defined on \(C_0^\infty({\mathbb R}_+)\) admits the closure in \(L^2({\mathbb R}_+)\) are found and the domain of its closure is described. Another goal of the paper is to study perturbations of singular Hankel operators by bounded quasi-Carleman operators \(V\) with kernels \(v(t)=v_0(t+\rho)^ke^{-\beta t}\), where \(v_0,k\in{\mathbb R}\), \(\beta\geq 0\), and \(\rho\geq 0\).

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