Positive sesquilinear form measures and generalized eigenvalue expansions

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2007.03.051MaRDI QIDQ2381937zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pellonpää, K. Ylinen, Tuomas Hytönen

Publication date 26 September 2007

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703589

(semi)spectral measure direct integral generalized eigenvector Naimark dilation normal operator sesquilinear form

Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75) Hermitian and normal operators (spectral measures, functional calculus, etc.) (47B15)

Abstract: Positive operator measures (with values in the space of bounded operators on a Hilbert space) and their generalizations, mainly positive sesquilinear form measures, are considered with the aim of providing a framework for their generalized eigenvalue type expansions. Though there are formal similarities with earlier approaches to special cases of the problem, the paper differs e.g. from standard rigged Hilbert space constructions and avoids the introduction of nuclear spaces. The techniques are predominantly measure theoretic and hence the Hilbert spaces involved are separable. The results range from a Naimark type dilation result to direct integral representations and a fairly concrete generalized eigenvalue expansion for unbounded normal operators.

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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.

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