Finite-dimensional perturbations of bounded self-adjoint operators

Rank one perturbations of self-adjoint operators

Adjoints and Self-Adjoint Operators Finite Dimensional Case

1 Definition of the Adjoint Let V and W be real or complex finite dimensional vector spaces with inner products 〈·, ·〉V and 〈·, ·〉W , respectively. Let L : V → W be linear. If there is a transformation L∗ : W → V for which 〈Lv,w〉W = 〈v, Lw〉V (1) holds for every pair of vectors v ∈ V and w in W , then L∗ is said to be the adjoint of L. Some of the properties of L∗ are listed below. Proposition 1...

Spectral Theorem for Bounded Self-adjoint Operators

Diagonalization is one of the most important topics one learns in an elementary linear algebra course. Unfortunately, it only works on finite dimensional vector spaces, where linear operators can be represented by finite matrices. Later, one encounters infinite dimensional vector spaces (spaces of sequences, for example), where linear operators can be thought of as ”infinite matrices”. Extendin...

Boundary Conditions for Singular Perturbations of Self-Adjoint Operators

Let A : D(A) ⊆ H → H be an injective self-adjoint operator and let τ : D(A) → X, X a Banach space, be a surjective linear map such that ‖τφ‖X ≤ c ‖Aφ‖H. Supposing that Range (τ ) ∩ H = {0}, we define a family AτΘ of self-adjoint operators which are extensions of the symmetric operator A|{τ=0} . Any φ in the operator domain D(A τ Θ) is characterized by a sort of boundary conditions on its univoc...

Non-negative Perturbations of Non-negative Self-adjoint Operators

Let A be a non-negative self-adjoint operator in a Hilbert space H and A0 be some densely defined closed restriction of A0, A0 ⊆ A 6= A0. It is of interest to know whether A is the unique non-negative self-adjoint extensions of A0 in H. We give a natural criterion that this is the case and if it fails, we describe all non-negative extensions of A0. The obtained results are applied to investigat...