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Chapter 25: Unbounded Operators on Hilbert Spaces

Chapter 25: Unbounded Operators on Hilbert Spaces

pp. 264-272

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, University of Warwick
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Summary

At the opposite extreme to the results of the last chapter, we now consider unbounded operators on Hilbert spaces. We define an appropriate notion of the Hilbert adjoint in this setting and show that for unbounded self-adjoint operators, we can develop a good spectral theory.

Keywords

  • unbounded operators
  • adjoint operator
  • symmetric operator
  • resolvent
  • spectrum
  • approximate eigenvalues

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