Index theory for skew-adjoint fredholm operators

Fredholm Operators and the Generalized Index

One of the most fundamental problems in mathematics is to solve linear equations of the form Tf = g, where T is a linear transformation, g is known, and f is some unknown quantity. The simplest example of this comes from elementary linear algebra, which deals with solutions to matrix-vector equations of the form Ax = b. More generally, if V,W are vector spaces (or, in particular, Hilbert or Ban...

Favard Theory for the Adjoint Equation and Fredholm Alternative

Fredholm Alternative is a classical tool of periodic linear equations, allowing to describe the existence of periodic solutions of an inhomogeneous equation in terms of the adjoint equation. A few partial extensions have been proposed in the literature for recurrent equations: our aim is to point out they have a common root and discuss whether such root gives rise to a general Fredholm–type Alt...

Fredholm Operators and the Family Index

Spectral Theory for Compact Self-Adjoint Operators

This agrees with the definition of the spectrum in the matrix case, where the resolvent set comprises all complex numbers that are not eigenvalues. In terms of its spectrum, we will see that a compact operator behaves like a matrix, in the sense that its spectrum is the union of all of its eigenvalues and 0. We begin with the eigenspaces of a compact operator. We start with two lemmas that we w...

A Note on the Index of B-fredholm Operators

From Corollary 3.5 in [Berkani, M; Sarih, M.; Studia Math. 148 (2001), 251– 257] we know that if S, T are commuting B-Fredholm operators acting on a Banach space X, then ST is a B-Fredholm operator. In this note we show that in general we do not have ind(ST ) = ind(S) + ind(T ), contrarily to what has been announced in Theorem 3.2 in [Berkani, M; Proc. Amer.Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1717–1723]. Ho...