scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1148278

Publication date 4 May 1998

bounded or compact operators Lebesgue measure and integration random measures self-adjoint operators spectral properties tensor products of Hilbert space variational methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to measure and integration (28-01) Integration with respect to measures and other set functions (28A25) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to functional analysis (46-01) Hilbert and pre-Hilbert spaces: geometry and topology (including spaces with semidefinite inner product) (46C05) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to operator theory (47-01) General (adjoints, conjugates, products, inverses, domains, ranges, etc.) (47A05) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Hermitian and normal operators (spectral measures, functional calculus, etc.) (47B15)

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The first chapter of the book is consecrated to a presentation of the most important results concerning Lebesgue measure and integration, with a more interest for the properties of \(L^1, L^2\).There are also some results connected with the theory of probabilities and to the study of Random measures as linear continuous functionals on \(K(E)\), \(E\) an open set in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). The most important part of the book is consecrated to the Hilbert analysis. The fundamentals of Hilbert spaces are presented and also operator theory in Hilbert spaces (bounded or compact operators, self-adjoint operators and their spectral properties). The author considers also, as applications, two chapters which refer to variational methods and applications in quantum mechanics. Let us remark the fact that the author has renounced to some proofs to make the pursuit of the results easier. For the first chapter some proofs, the shortest or the most illustrative, have been regrouped in a special paragraph at the end of the chapter. On the other hand there are a lot of examples and exercises. Some are essential to follow the exposed material, the other being useful for the reader to fix different notions and to make different connections between them. There are also four appendices on the history of general topology, integration and functional analysis on Hilbert spaces and to recall the fundamentals of topology in metric and normed spaces, the Cauchy-Lipschitz theorem of existence and uniqueness for a differential equation and general properties of tensor products, in particular tensor products of Hilbert space.

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