Characterization of anticommutativity of self-adjoint operators in connection with Clifford algebra and applications

A new characterization of anticommutativity of (unbounded) self-adjoint operators is presented in connection with Clifford algebra. Some consequences of the characterization and applications are discussed.     

Decompositions of Singular Continuous Spectra of \mathcal{H}_{ - 2} -class Rank One Perturbations

The decomposition theory for the singular continuous spectrum of rank one singular perturbations is studied. A generalization of the well-known Aronszajn-Donoghue theory to the case of decompositions with respect to α-dimensional Hausdorff measures is given and a characterization of the supports of the α-singular, α-absolutely continuous, and strongly α-continuous parts of the spectral measure of - class rank one singular perturbations is given in terms of the limiting behaviour of the regularized Borel transform.     

Noncommuting Domination in Krein Spaces Via Commutators of Block Operator Matrices

The commutators of 2 × 2 block operator matrices with (unbounded) operator entries are investigated. The matrix representation of a symmetric operator in a Krein space is exploited. As a consequence, the domination result due to Cichoń, Stochel and Szafraniec is extended to the case of Krein spaces.     

Zeno Product Formula Revisited

We introduce a new product formula which combines an orthogonal projection with a complex function of a non-negative operator. Under certain assumptions on the complex function the strong convergence of the product formula is shown. Under more restrictive assumptions even operator-norm convergence is verified. The mentioned formula can be used to describe Zeno dynamics in the situation when the usual non-decay measurement is replaced by a particular generalized observables in the sense of Davies.     

Finite Rank Perturbations of Toeplitz Operators

We study finite rank perturbations of the Brown-Halmos type results involving products of Toeplitz operators acting on the Bergman space.      

On Compact Perturbations of Locally Definitizable Selfadjoint Relations in Krein Spaces

The aim of this paper is to prove two perturbation results for a selfadjoint operator A in a Krein space which can roughly be described as follows: (1) If is an open subset of and all spectral subspaces for A corresponding to compact subsets of have finite rank of negativity, the same is true for a selfadjoint operator B in for which the difference of the resolvents of A and B is compact. (2) The property that there exists some neighbourhood of such that the restriction of A to a spectral subspace for A corresponding to is a nonnegative operator in is preserved under relative perturbations in form sense if the resulting operator is again selfadjoint. The assertion (1) is proved for selfadjoint relations A and B. (1) and (2) generalize some known results.     

Commutation properties of anticommuting self-adjoint operators,spin representation and Dirac operators

LetA andB be anticommuting self-adjoint operators in a Hilbert space . It is proven thatiAB is essentially self-adjoint on a suitable domain and its closureC(A, B) anticommutes withA andB. LetU _s be the partial isometry associated with the self-adjoint operatorsS, i.e., the partial isometry defined by the polar decompositionS=U _S |S|. LetP _S be the orthogonal projection onto (KerS). Then the following are proven: (i) The operatorsU _A ,U _B ,U _C(A,B) ,P _A ,P _B , andP _A P _B multiplied by some constants satisfy a set of commutation relations, which may be regarded as an extension of that satisfied by the standard basis of the Lie algebra of the special unitary groupSU(2); (ii) There exists a Lie algebra associated with those operators; (iii) If is separable andA andB are injective, then gives a completely reducible representation of with each irreducible component being the spin representation of the Clifford algebra associated with ³; This result can be extended to the case whereA andB are not necessarily injective. Moreover, some properties ofA+B are discussed. The abstract results are applied to Dirac operators.     

Scaling limit of anticommuting self-adjoint operators and applications to Dirac operators

LetA andB be two anticommuting self-adjoint operators andV() be a symmetric operator in a Hilbert space, where >0 is a parameter. It is proven that, under some conditions forV(), the resolvents of A+² B±²|B|+V() converge as . Applications to the nonrelativistic-limit problem of Dirac operators and supersymmetry are discussed.This work is supported by the Grant-In-Aid 0560139 for science research from the Ministry of Education, Japan.     

Hyponormal Operators with Rank One Self-Commutator and Quadrature Domains

This paper studies the class of pure hyponormal operators with rank one self-commutator satisfying the condition that their spectra are quadrature domains.     

The Virozub–Matsaev Condition and Spectrum of Definite Type for Self-adjoint Operator Functions

We establish sufficient conditions for the so-called Virozub–Matsaev condition for twice continuously differentiable self-adjoint operator functions. This condition is closely related to the existence of a local spectral function and to the notion of positive type spectrum. Applications to self-adjoint operators in Krein spaces and to quadratic operator polynomials are given. Received: September 22, 2007. Accepted: September 29, 2007.     

Dominated polynomials on $\mathcal{L}_P $ -spaces

It is well known that continuous bilinear forms on C(K) × C(K) are 2-dominated. This paper shows that generalizations of this result are not to be expected. The main result asserts that for every -space E(1 p ), every n 2, every r > 0 and every Banach space F , there exists an n-homogeneous polynomial P : E F such that P is not of type [_r], hence P is neither r-dominated nor r-semi-integral (if n = 2 and p = , F is supposed to contain an isomorphic copy of some , 1_q < ).Received: 24 November 2003     

Rank one perturbations of not semibounded operators

Rank one perturbations of selfadjoint operators which are not necessarily semibounded are studied in the present paper. It is proven that such perturbations are uniquely defined, if they are bounded in the sense of forms. We also show that form unbounded rank one perturbations can be uniquely defined if the original operator and the perturbation are homogeneous with respect to a certain one parameter semigroup. The perturbed operator is defined using the extension theory for symmetric operators. The resolvent of the perturbed operator is calculated using Krein's formula. It is proven that every rank one perturbation can be approximated in the operator norm. We prove that some form unbounded perturbations can be approximated in the strong resolvent sense without renormalization of the coupling constant only if the original operator is not semibounded. The present approach is applied to study first derivative and Dirac operators with point interaction, in one dimension.     

Virtual Eigenvalues of the High Order Schrödinger Operator I

We consider the Schr?dinger operator H_γ = ( − Δ)^l + γ V(x)· acting in the space $$L_2 (\mathbb{R}^d ),$$ where 2l ≥ d, V (x) ≥ 0, V (x) is continuous and is not identically zero, and $$\lim _{|{\mathbf{x}}| \to \infty } V({\mathbf{x}}) = 0.$$ We obtain an asymptotic expansion as $$\gamma \uparrow 0$$of the bottom negative eigenvalue of H_γ, which is born at the moment γ = 0 from the lower bound λ = 0 of the spectrum σ(H₀) of the unperturbed operator H₀ = ( − Δ)^l (a virtual eigenvalue). To this end we develop a supplement to the Birman-Schwinger theory on the process of the birth of eigenvalues in the gap of the spectrum of the unperturbed operator H₀. Furthermore, we extract a finite-rank portion Φ(λ) from the Birman- Schwinger operator $$X_V (\lambda ) = V^{\frac{1} {2}} R_\lambda (H_0 )V^{\frac{1}{2}} ,$$ which yields the leading terms for the desired asymptotic expansion.     

Some Properties of Essential Spectra of a Positive Operator

Let E be a Banach lattice, T be a bounded operator on E. The Weyl essential spectrum σ_ew(T) of the operator T is a set , where is a set of all compact operators on E. In particular for a positive operator T next subsets of the spectrum

On semibounded restrictions of self-adjoint operators

After the von Neumann's remark [10] about pathologies of unbounded symmetric operators and an abstract theorem about stability domain [9], we develope here a general theory allowing to construct semibounded restrictions of selfadjoint operators in explicit form. We apply this theory to quantum-mechanical momentum (position) operator to describe corresponding stability domains. Generalization to the case of measurable functions of these operators is considered. In conclusion we discuss spectral properties of self-adjoint extensions of constructed self-adjoint restrictions.     

Extremal Problems for Operators in Banach Spaces Arising in the Study of Linear Operator Pencils

Inspired by some problems on fractional linear transformations the authors introduce and study the class of operators satisfying the condition where stands for the spectral radius; and the class of Banach spaces in which all operators satisfy this condition, the authors call such spaces V-spaces. It is shown that many well-known reflexive spaces, in particular, such spaces as L_p(0,1) and C_p, are non-V-spaces if p 2; and that the spaces l_p are V-spaces if and only if 1 < p < . The authors pose and discuss some related open problems.