Self-adjoint operators and their spectra play a crucial rôle in analysis and physics. For instance, in quantum physics self-adjoint operators are used to describe measurements and the spectrum represents the set of possible measurement results. Therefore, it is a natural question whether the spectrum of a self-adjoint operator can be computed from a description of the operator. We prove that gi...

We study numerically the monopole creation operator proposed recently by Fröhlich and Marchetti. The operator is defined with the help of a three dimensional model which generates random Mandelstam strings. These strings imitate the Coulombic magnetic field around the monopole. We show that if the Mandelstam strings are condensed the creation operator discriminates between the phases with conde...

Let G be a locally compact abelian group, let m be a bounded complex-valued Borel measure on G; and let Tm be the corresponding convolution operator on LðGÞ: Let X be a Banach space and let S be a continuous linear operator on X : Then we show that every linear operator F : X ! LðGÞ such that FS 1⁄4 TmF is continuous if and only if the pair ðS;TmÞ has no critical eigenvalue. # 2002 Elsevier Sci...

We derive some rigorous results concerning the backflow operator introduced by Bracken and Melloy. We show that it is linear bounded, self adjoint, and not compact. Thus the question is underlined whether the backflow constant is an eigenvalue of the backflow operator. From the position representation of the backflow operator we obtain a more efficient method to determine the backflow constant....

The Γ-convergence of lower bounded quadratic forms is used to study the singular operator limit of thin tubes (i.e., the vanishing of the cross section diameter) of the Laplace operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions; a procedure to obtain the effective Schrödinger operator (in different subspaces) is proposed, generalizing recent results in case of compact tubes. Finally, after scaling cur...

We show that the Dirac operator on a compact globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spacetime with spacelike Cauchy boundary is a Fredholm operator if appropriate boundary conditions are imposed. We prove that the index of this operator is given by the same expression as in the index formula of Atiyah-Patodi-Singer for Riemannian manifolds with boundary. The index is also shown to equal that of a certa...

We define the Dirichlet to Neumann operator on exterior differential forms for a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary and prove that the real additive cohomology structure of the manifold is determined by the DN operator. In particular, an explicit formula is obtained which expresses Betti numbers of the manifold through the DN operator. We express also the Hilbert transform through the DN...

Abstract. We study a general transition operator, generated by a random walk on a graph X ; in particular we give necessary and sufficient condition on the matrix coefficient (1-step transition probablilities) to be a bounded operator from l(X) into itself. Moreover we characterize compact operators and we relate this property to the behaviour of the associated random walk. We give a necessary ...

Stampfli has shown that for a given T £ B(H) there exists a K £ C(H) so that o(T + K) = ow(T). An analogous result holds for the essential numerical range We(T). A compact operator K is said to preserve the Weyl spectrum and essential numerical range of an operator T £ B(H) if o(T + K) = o„(T) and W(T + K)= We(T). Theorem. For each block diagonal operator T, there exists a compact operator K wh...