On the pseudospectra of Berezin--Toeplitz operators

DOI10.4310/MAA.2003.V10.N1.A3MaRDI QIDQ2565449zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors David Borthwick, A. Uribe

Publication date 27 September 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0304182

zbMATH Keywords

Berezin-Toeplitz transformKähler manifoldline bundlepseudospectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Toeplitz operators, Hankel operators, Wiener-Hopf operators (47B35) Pseudodifferential operators (47G30) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: We estimate the norm of the resolvent of non-selfadjoint Berezin Toeplitz operators in the semi-classical limit, under various assumptions on the Poisson bracket of the real and imaginary parts of the symbol. In case this bracket is negative, we symbolically construct pseudomodes well-localized in phase space. We also show that the numerical range converges to the convex hull of the image of the symbol. Our techniques involve the theory of Hermite distributions and classical subelliptic results of H"ormander.

Review text

A basic, recurrent theme of operator theory is the finite rank approximation following a fixed scale of projections. Indeed, this was the subject of \textit{F.~Riesz}' foundational work [``Les systèmes d'équations linéaires a une infinité d'inconnues (Gauthier-Villars, Paris) (1913; JFM 44.0401.01)]. There he calls this procedure ``le principe des réduites. In the modern electrical engineering literature, it is called ``the finite section method. Szegő's limit theorem, the asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials, Padé's approximation scheme are all facets of the same principle. The article under review applies such a central approximation procedure to geometric quantization. To be more specific, the authors consider a Kähler manifold \(X\), a line bundle \(L\) whose curvature is the symplectic form on \(X\) and a symbol, i.e., a smooth scalar valued function \(f\) on \(X\). One studies the action of the Toeplitz like operator \[ \Gamma(X, L^{\otimes n}) \longrightarrow \Gamma(X, L^{\otimes n}) \] given by \[ T_n: \psi \mapsto \Pi_n (f\psi), \] where \(\Gamma (.,.)\) denotes the analytic sections and \(\Pi_n\) is an appropriate orthogonal projection. This is, of course, a twisted version of the Fock space. An asymptotic study of spectral properties of \(T_n\) (in particular, the lower bound of the modulus \(| T_n| \)) occupies the main part of the article. A couple of illuminating examples (Fock space on \(\mathbb C\), and elliptic curves/theta functions) show the relevance and importance of this study. The work fits into a modern programme proposed by Sjöstrand, Zworski, Trefethen and others. The style is concise but fluent. Both advanced readers and beginners will find this text rewarding and inspiring.

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• Wave packet pseudomodes of variable coefficient differential operators
• Probabilistic Weyl laws for quantized tori

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