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Spectral theory is a study of generalized notions of eigenvalues and eigenvectors.

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Quantization of angular momentum: is Dirac's proof wrong?

I'm trying to understand the physicist's proof of the theorem on the spectral structure of angular momentum operators (I'm being told that this proof is due to Dirac). I will refer to Ballentine's ...
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Integral with spectral decomposition

Let $A:H\longrightarrow H$ be a self-adjoint operator, where H is an Hilbert space. Let $(E_{\lambda})_{\lambda}$ be the spectral decomposition of $A$ and $\lambda_0$ a regular value of A with finite ...
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Do elliptic operators on Riemannian manifolds have a regularizing effect?

I'm working on my master thesis and need to handle some spectral theory of the Laplace operator on compact Riemannian manifolds and especially on the sphere. While investigating essential ...
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Is it true that the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the sphere has compact resolvents?

We consider the Riemannian structure on the sphere $\mathbb{S}^n$ seen as a submanifold of $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ and the Laplace-Beltrami operator defined on $C^\infty(\mathbb{S}^n)$ by the equation ...
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Fourier Transform of a Covariance Function for Spectral Simulation

I am learning about generating Gaussian random fields by spectral simulation... If I have a covariance function $C(h)$, then the spectral density is the Fourier transform of $C(h)$: ...
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Orthogonal projection and normal operators

Let $G$ be normal operator with compact resolvent such that $\ker G$ is different from $\{0\}$. Now Let $P$ be the orthogonal projection onto $\ker G$ and consider $G' = G + P$. Please, I want an ...
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Well definededness of integration with respect to a projection valued measure

Let $(X,\mathcal{F})$ be a measurable space and let $E:\mathcal{F}\to\mathscr{B(H)}$ be a spectral measure. Let $\phi\in B(X)$ be a simple function whose image is ...
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Family of Self-Adjoint Operators that are Multiplications on a Common $L^2(\mu)$?

Suppose that $H$ is some (complex) Hilbert space and that $\{T_\alpha: \alpha \in I\}$ is some collection of bounded self-adjoint operators on $H$. A version of the spectral theorem states that for ...
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Explicit expression for eigenpairs of Laplace-Beltrami operator

In $R^n$, the Laplace-Beltrami operator is just the Laplacian, and its eigenstructure is well known. There are also explicit expressions for the eigenvalues/eigenvectors of the Laplace-Beltrami ...
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Eigenprojection as Contour Integral over Resolvent

Let $H$ be a Hilbert space and let $A \in L(H)$ be a bounded linear operator. Assume that $\lambda$ is an eigenvalue of $A$ and assume further that $C_\lambda$ is a simple closed curve in the complex ...
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Spectrum of Indefinite Integral Operators

I've considered the following spectral problems for a long time, I did not kow how to tackle them. Maybe they needs some skills with inequalities. For the first, suppose $T:L^{2}[0,1]\rightarrow ...
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Functional Analysis- Convergence II

Given an operator $H$ , and a sequence $\{ H_n \} _{n\geq 1 } $ in an arbitrary Hilbert Space , such that both $H$ and $ H_n $ are self-adjoint . How can I prove that if $||(H_n+i)^{-1} - (H+i) ^ ...
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Approximate Point Spectrum is subset of Spectrum

I'm trying to prove that if $\lambda$ an approximate eigenvalue of $T$ then $\lambda \in \sigma(T)$, but I can't work out how to do it. Could someone give me a hint, or point me in the direction of a ...
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Using Rayleigh Quotient to approximate the first eigenvalue of the Laplace operator on the unit disk

Let $D\subset\mathbb{R}^{2}$ unit disk, the first eigenvalue of the Laplace operator holds: $\lambda_{1}=\inf\left\{ \frac{\int_{D}\left|\triangledown ...
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Compact operator? self adjoint operator? Stirling's formula

Define a pair of operators $S\colon\ell^2 \rightarrow \ell^2$ and $M\colon\ell^2 \to\ell^2$ as follows: $$S(x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4,\ldots)=(0,x_1,x_2,x_3,\ldots) $$ and ...
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Eigenvalues of the 1D laplacian with mixed boundary conditions

I am trying to find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Laplacian with mixed boundary conditions on $[0,L]$: More precisely: $$X''(x) = \lambda X(x)$$ with $X'(0)=0$ and $X(L)=a$. I know how to ...
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“Algebraic multiplicity” for eigenvalues of a Sturm-Liouville-like problem?

Following Coddington-Levinson's book Theory of ordinary differential equations, chapter 7: "Self-adjoint problems on finite intervals", let us consider the eigenvalue problem $$\pi(l):\begin{cases} ...
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Why is the numerical range of a self-adjoint operator an interval?

I was reviewing for a test for functional analysis when I came across the following statement: Let $T$ be a bounded self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space $H$. Then the numerical range of it is ...
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Approximate eigenvalue and continuous spectrum

Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a Hilbert space and let $A: \mathcal{H} \rightarrow \mathcal{H}$ be a bounded operator. While studying different definitions of the continuous spectrum of $A$ (one using ...
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How to solve X*A=C matrix equation where two (X and A) matrices are unknown?

I have a spectroscopy problem that boils down to a matrix equation where X*A=C. I take N observations each consisting of 3 detector readings and my detectors suffer from some amount of cross-talk ...
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Is there a solution to this integral equation?

The problem is related to this question: How to find eigenfunctions of a linear operator (follow-up question) I posted earlier. Suppose I want to solve the following integral equation: $$\int_0^1 ...
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How to find eigenfunctions of a linear operator (follow-up question)

This is a follow up to this question. My original question was answered by @oeanamen but for convenience here I state the follow up question completely. I am interested in calculating characteristic ...
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How to find eigenfunctions of a linear operator

I wonder if there is a general way of finding characteristic values and eigenfunctions of a given linear operator described by an integral. As a special case suppose I am interested in this function: ...
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Ratio of largest eigenvalue to sum of eigenvalues — where to read about it?

Let $E_j$ be the $j$th largest-magnitude eigenvalue of a real symmetric $N \times N$ matrix $M$. I've found that the ratio $$\frac{|E_1|}{\sum_{j=1}^N{|E_j|}},$$ is a measure of the "rank-one-ness" ...
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Characterizations of the form domain for unbounded selfadjoint operators

This question follows from this one and especially from Willie Wong's answer: link. In Reed & Simon's book Methods of modern mathematical physics, vol. I, pag.277, the form domain of a ...
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Relations between spectrum and quadratic forms in the unbounded case

Let $H$ be a complex Hilbert space. If $B$ is a bounded self-adjoint operator on $H$ then its spectrum is a closed and bounded subset of the real line and we can find its extremes in terms of the ...
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What is the difference between Singular Value and Eigenvalue?

I am trying to prove some statements about singular value decomposition, but I am not sure what the difference between singular value and eigenvalue is. Is singular value just another name for ...
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Spectral radius, and a curious equality.

Given a $N\times N$ matrix $A$ over $\mathbb R$. Let $ \rho\left( A \right) = \max \left\{ {\left| \lambda \right|;\lambda \mbox{ eigenvalue of }A} \right\}$. Someone told me that, the following ...
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Is there a residue theorem for holomorphic operator-valued functions?

I'm wondering whether there is such a thing as a "residue theorem for holomorphic operator-valued functions". More precisely, I want to evaluate an integral of the form $P:=\int_{\Gamma} (A(\lambda) ...
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If $S$ and $T$ are commuting, normal operators, then $ST$ is normal

If $S$ and $T$ are commuting, normal operators, then $ST$ is normal That says it all, but let me be more specific. (By the way Wikipedia says this: "The product of normal operators that commute ...
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Asymptotics of Riemann-Lebesgue type integral

How to show that for $u \in L_{\mathbb{C}}^2$ and $a>0$, $$\int_0^a u(t) \sin{\sqrt{\lambda}t} \,dt = o(e^{|Im\sqrt{\lambda}|a}),\text{ as } |\lambda| \rightarrow \infty$$ Note that $\lambda$ ...
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A solution of $-y'' + q(x)y= \lambda y$

Could you help me with the following problem (from Poschel and Trubowitz)? I am looking for a solution of the differential equation $-y'' + q(x)y= \lambda y$, for $0 \leq x \leq 1$ with ...
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How to generate noise signal?

What is the simplest formula of some noise signal? $A(t)=...$ where t is time. What is the name of a noise, which power spectral density is gaussian? EDIT 1 Actually I need a function which can ...
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Unitary equivalence to multiplication by x of the sum of a shift and its adjoint

We define $H=l^2(\mathbb{Z})$, $S\in L(H)$ to be the left (bilateral) shift and we look at $T=S+S^*$ ($S^*$ is actually the right shift). We need to prove that the spectrum of $T$ is $[-2, 2]$ and ...
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relation between inner product and spectrum

There is a question that puzzles me, so may be someone here has an answer. Assume we have a symmetric operator $A$ that is defined on a space $D$ that is dense in $L^2$, so $A:D\rightarrow L^2$, and ...
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Spectral measure of the multiplication operator

I have the following question: let $(X,\mathcal B,\mu)$ be a finite measure space and consider the operator $T\colon L^2(X,\mu)\to L^2(X,\mu)$ given by $Tf(x)=\varphi(x)f(x)$, where $\varphi\colon ...
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Bounds for eigenvalues, perturbation theory

Consider $-\Delta$ defined in $H^2(\Omega)\cap H_0^1(\Omega)$, $\Omega$ a smooth bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$. Let $g\in L^{\infty}(\Omega)$, $a\leq g(x)\leq b$. Show that, if ...
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change of spectrum under diagonalisation

I have the following question. Let $T\colon \mathcal{H} \to \mathcal{H}$ be a bounded, self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert-space $\mathcal{H}$. By spectral theorem we know that there exists a measure ...
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What is the use of Spectral Theorem?

Obviously the version for compact and self-adjoint linear operators on Hilbert Spaces is very useful since it decomposes the operators into orthogonal projections. However, the following more general ...
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An hermitian operator problem

It is possible to have two hermitian operators $A$ et $B$, with : $B^2 = \mathbb{I}d$ $[A,B] = i * \mathbb{I}d$ where $i$ is the usual (complex) square root of $(-1)$, and $\mathbb{I}d$ is the ...
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Find spectrum of $Af (x) = \int\limits_0^\pi \sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty 5^{-n} \cos(nx)\cos(nt) f(t)\;dt$

I need to find spectrum of $Af (x) = \int\limits_0^\pi \sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty 5^{-n} \cos(nx)\cos(nt) f(t)\;dt$ in $L_2[0,\pi]$. I know that this operator is self-adjoint, so its residual spectrum ...
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Simple isolated eigenvalue and pole of the resolvent

Let $T$ be bounded linear operator on some complex Banach space, and $\lambda$ an eigenvalue of $T$ which is isolated in its spectrum, and such that $\bigcup_{n\ge 1} N((T- \lambda I)^n)$ is ...
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Prove $\forall$ compact $M:\ M \subset C\quad \exists A:l_2\rightarrow l_2, \sigma(A)=M$ [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Operator whose spectrum is given compact set Can spectrum “specify” an operator? Prove that for each nonempty $M$ - compact subset of $\mathbf{C}$ exists ...
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References for spectral measures

I am trying to learn a little bit about the spectral theory of unbounded operators but the textbook we are using (Birman and Solomyak: Spectral theory of Self-Adjoint Operators in a Hilbert Space) is ...
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Eigenvalues of doubly stochastic matrices

There was a long standing conjecture stating that the geometric location of eigenvalues of doubly stochastic matrices of order $n$ is exactly the union of regular $k$-gons anchored at $1$ in the unit ...
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Nonexistence of a cyclic vector for a representation on $\ell^2(\mathbb{Z})$

Let $S$ be the bilateral shift on $\ell^2(\mathbb{Z})$ and let $T = S + S^*$. I want to show that there is no cyclic vector for the representation of $T$ on $\ell^2(\mathbb{Z})$ i.e. $\forall x\in ...
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A question on strongly continuous semi-groups

At the moment I am trying to understand "Lectures on Floer homology" By D. Salamon, see http://www.math.ethz.ch/~salamon/PREPRINTS/floer.pdf In step 1 of the proof of Lemma 2.4 (page 17) he ...
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reference for strongly continuous semi-groups

At the moment I am trying to understand the proof of the Fredholm property in Salamon's notes on Floer homology. There I came across the notion of an unbounded operator on a (real) Hilbert space which ...
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Unitary Operator as a complex valued function

A book on Quantum Mechanics by Schwinger states, "A unitary operator can be considered to be a complex valued function of a Hermitian operator." Please give a hint on how to prove this assertion.
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Ascent and descent for a bounded linear operator

Let $T$ be a bounded linear operator on some complex Banach space. We define its ascent by $\alpha(T) = \min \{ n \ge 0 \, / \, N(T^n) = N(T^{n+1}) \}$ and its descent by $\delta(T) = \min \{ n \ge 0 ...

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