The extension theory for semibounded symmetric operators is generalized by including operators acting in a triplet of Hilbert spaces. We concentrate our attention on the case where the minimal operator is essentially self-adjoint in the basic Hilbert space and construct a family of its self-adjoint extensions inside the triplet. All such extensions can be described by certain boundary condition...

In quantum theory, real degrees of freedom are usually described by operators which are self-adjoint. There are, however, exceptions to the rule. This is because, in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces, an operator is not necessarily self-adjoint even if its expectation values are real. Instead, the operator may be merely symmetric. Such operators are not diagonalizable and as a consequence the...

Abstract. We generalize earlier results of [2], [3], [6], [13], [14] to the case of functions of n-tuples of commuting self-adjoint operators. In particular, we prove that if a function f belongs to the Besov space B ∞,1(R ), then f is operator Lipschitz and we show that if f satisfies a Hölder condition of order α, then ‖f(A1 · · · , An)− f(B1, · · · , Bn)‖ ≤ constmax1≤j≤n ‖Aj −Bj‖ α for all n...

We generalize the notion of Lagrangian subspaces to self-orthogonal subspaces with respect to a (skew-)symmetric form, thus characterizing (skew-) self-adjoint and unitary operators by means of self-orthogonal subspaces. By orthogonality preserving mappings, these characterizations can be transferred to abstract boundary value spaces of (skew-)symmetric operators. Introducing the notion of boun...

Interpolation inequalities of Gagliardo-Nirenberg type and compactness results for self-adjoint trace-class operators with finite kinetic energy are established. Applying these results to the minimization of various free energy functionals, we determine for instance stationary states of the Hartree problem with temperature corresponding to various statistics. Key-words. Compact self-adjoint ope...

Borg-type uniqueness theorems for matrix-valued Jacobi operators H and supersymmetric Dirac difference operators D are proved. More precisely, assuming reflectionless matrix coefficients A,B in the self-adjoint Jacobi operator H = AS + AS + B (with S the right/left shift operators on the lattice Z) and the spectrum of H to be a compact interval [E−, E+], E− < E+, we prove that A and B are certa...

Stacking operators are widely used in seismic imaging and seismic data processing. Examples include Kirchhoff datuming, migration, offset continuation, DMO, and velocity transform. Two primary approaches exist for inverting such operators. The first approach is iterative least-squares optimization, which involves the construction of the adjoint operator. The second approach is asymptotic invers...