Spectral duality for a class of unbounded operators

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Authors Dorin Ervin Dutkay, Palle Jorgensen

Publication date 4 August 2008

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits and colimits (products, sums, directed limits, pushouts, fiber products, equalizers, kernels, ends and coends, etc.) (18A30) Discrete potential theory (31C20) Theoretical approximation of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34A45) Numerical approximation of eigenvalues and of other parts of the spectrum of ordinary differential operators (34L16) Dynamical systems and their relations with probability theory and stochastic processes (37A50) Hilbert spaces with reproducing kernels (= (proper) functional Hilbert spaces, including de Branges-Rovnyak and other structured spaces) (46E22) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75) Linear difference operators (47B39)

Abstract: We establish a spectral duality for certain unbounded operators in Hilbert space. The class of operators includes discrete graph Laplacians arising from infinite weighted graphs. The problem in this context is to establish a practical approximation of infinite models with suitable sequences of finite models which in turn allow (relatively) easy computations. Let $X$ be an infinite set and let $H$ be a Hilbert space of functions on $X$ with inner product $ipcdotcdot=ipcdot{cdot}_H$. We will be assuming that the Dirac masses $delt{a}_x$, for $xinX$, are contained in $H$. And we then define an associated operator $Delta$ in $H$ given by ${\displaystyle }$(Delta v)(x):=ip{delta_x}{v}_{H}.${\displaystyle }$ Similarly, for every finite subset $FsubsetX$, we get an operator $Delt{a}_F$. If $F_{1}subset{F}_{2}subset\mathrm{...}$ is an ascending sequence of finite subsets such that $$, we are interested in the following two problems: (a) obtaining an approximation formula ${\displaystyle }$lim_{k oinfty}Delta_{F_k}=Delta;${\displaystyle }$ and (b) establish a computational spectral analysis for the truncated operators $Delt{a}_F$ in (a).

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