Partial inner product spaces, metric operators and generalized hermiticity

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/2/025204MaRDI QIDQ4920364zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Camillo Trapani, J. P. Antoine

Publication date 17 May 2013

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3163

zbMATH Keywords

partial inner product spacepseudo-Hermitian operatorssimilarity between operatorsspectral propertiesunbounded metric operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalizations of inner products (semi-inner products, partial inner products, etc.) (46C50) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25)

Abstract: Motivated by the recent developments of pseudo-hermitian quantum mechanics, we analyze the structure of unbounded metric operators in a Hilbert space. It turns out that such operators generate a canonical lattice of Hilbert spaces, that is, the simplest case of a partial inner product space (PIP space). Next, we introduce several generalizations of the notion of similarity between operators and explore to what extend they preserve spectral properties. Then we apply some of the previous results to operators on a particular PIP space, namely, a scale of Hilbert spaces generated by a metric operator. Finally, we reformulate the notion of pseudo-hermitian operators in the preceding formalism.

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