Yang–Mills theory in four dimensions is studied by using the Coulomb gauge. The Coulomb gauge Hamiltonian involves integration of matrix elements of an operator P built from the Laplacian and from a first-order differential operator. The operator P is studied from the point of view of spectral theory of pseudo-differential operators on compact Riemannian manifolds, both when self-adjointness ho...

Our main result is a local limit law for the empirical spectral distribution of the anticommutator of independent Wigner matrices, modeled on the local semicircle law. Our approach is to adapt some techniques from one of the recent papers of Erdös-Yau-Yin. We also use an algebraic description of the law of the anticommutator of free semicircular variables due to Nica-Speicher, a self-adjointnes...

1. Topological Vector Spaces 1 1.1. The Krein-Milman theorem 7 2. Banach Algebras 11 2.1. Commutative Banach algebras 14 2.2. ∗–Algebras (over complexes) 17 2.3. Problems on Banach algebras 20 3. The Spectral Theorem 21 3.1. Problems on the Spectral Theorem (Multiplication Operator Form) 26 3.2. Integration with respect to a Projection Valued Measure 27 3.3. The Functional Calculus 34 4. Unboun...

(1.1) i∂tψ(t) = Hψ(t) . For all initial conditions ψ(0) ∈ H, the unique solution is given by ψ(t) = e−itHψ(0), for all t ∈ R. Due to Stone’s Theorem e−itH is a strongly continuous one-parameter group of unitary operators on H, and the self-adjointness of H is the necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a unique continuous solution for all times. An alternative description of thi...

We discuss direct and inverse spectral theory for a Sturm–Liouville type problem with a quadratic dependence on the eigenvalue parameter, −f ′′ + 1 4 f = z ωf + zυf, which arises as the isospectral problem for the conservative Camassa–Holm flow. In order to be able to treat rather irregular coefficients (that is, when ω is a real-valued Borel measure on R and υ is a non-negative Borel measure o...

We show that the particle motion in Bohmian mechanics as the solution of an ordinary differential equation exists globally, i.e., the singularities of the velocity field and infinity will not be reached in finite time for typical initial configurations and a large class of potentials, including the physically most relevant potential of N -particle Coulomb interaction with arbitrary charges and ...