Using simple commutator relations, we obtain several trace identities involving eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of an abstract self-adjoint operator acting in a Hilbert space. Applications involve abstract universal estimates for the eigenvalue gaps. As particular examples, we present simple proofs of the classical universal estimates for eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian, as well as of som...

The question whether every operator on H has an hyperinvariant subspace is one of the most difficult problems in operator theory. The purpose of this paper is to make a beginning on the hyperinvariant subspace problems for another class of operators closely related to the normal operators namely, the class of k -quasi-class A operators. A necessary and sufficient condition for the hypercyclicit...

Let A be a positive self-adjoint operator and let B be an m-accretive operator which is A-small with a relative bound less than one. Let H = A + B, then H is well-deened on dom(H) = dom(A) and m-accretive. If B is a strictly m-accretive operator obeying dom((H)) dom(A) \ dom((B)) 6 = f0g for some 2 (0; 1]; (1) then for the Trotter product formula we prove that ?

We consider a singular Sturm-Liouville expression with the indefinite weight sgnx. To this expression there is naturally a self-adjoint operator in some Krein space associated. We characterize the local definitizability of this operator in a neighbourhood of ∞. Moreover, in this situation, the point ∞ is a regular critical point. We construct an operator A = (sgnx)(−d2/dx2 + q) with non-real sp...

In an American Mathematical Society Memoir, to appear in 2003, the authors Everitt and Markus apply their prior theory of symplectic algebra to the study of symmetric linear partial differential expressions, and the generation of self-adjoint differential operators in Sobolev Hilbert spaces. In the case when the differential expression has smooth coefficients on the closure of a bounded open re...

Starting from Rodrigues formula we present a general construction of raising and lowering operators for orthogonal polynomials of continuous and discrete variable on uniform lattice. In order to have these operators mutually adjoint we introduce orthonormal functions with respect to the scalar product of unit weight. Using the Infeld-Hull factorization method, we generate from the raising and l...

Although one can show formally that a time-of-arrival operator cannot exist, one can modify the low momentum behaviour of the operator slightly so that it is self-adjoint. We show that such a modification results in the difficulty that the eigenstates are drastically altered. In an eigenstate of the modified time-of-arrival operator, the particle, at the predicted time-of-arrival, is found far ...

We utilize group-theoretical methods to develop a matrix representation of differential operators that act on tensors of any rank. In particular, we concentrate on the matrix formulation of the curl operator. A self-adjoint matrix of the curl operator is constructed and its action is extended to a complex plane. This scheme allows us to obtain properties, similar to those of the traditional cur...

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 ...

The time operator for a quantum singular oscillator of the Calogero-Sutherland type is constructed in terms of the generators of the SU(1,1) group. In the space spanned by the eigenstates of the Hamiltonian, the time operator is not self-adjoint. We show, that the time-energy uncertainty relation can be given the meaning within the Barut-Girardello coherent states defined for the singular oscil...