In this note, by means of the spectrum of the generating operator, we characterize the self-adjointness and closedness of the range of a normal and a self-adjoint Jordan *-derivation, respectively.

In Noncommutative Geometry, as in quantum theory, classically real variables are assumed to correspond to self-adjoint operators. We consider the relaxation of the requirement of self-adjointness to mere symmetry for operators Xi which encode space-time information.

Let M be a complete Riemannian manifold and D : C∞ 0 (E) → C∞ 0 (F ) a first order differential operator acting between sections of the hermitian vector bundles E, F . Moreover, let V : C∞(E) → L∞ loc (E) be a self–adjoint zero order differential operator. We give a sufficient condition for the Schrödinger operator H = DD + V to be essentially self–adjoint. This generalizes recent work of I. Ol...

We give an abstract categorical presentation of continuation semantics by taking the continuation type constructor : (or cont in Standard ML of New Jersey) as primitive. This constructor on types extends to a contravariant functor on terms which is adjoint to itself on the left; restricted to the subcategory of those programs that do not manipulate the current continuation, it is adjoint to its...