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This should be a trivial question for mathematicians but not for typical physicists. I know that the spectrum of a linear operator on a Banach space splits into the so-called "point," "continuous" ...

Note: This is a simplified version of the following question. I did not get a full response and realized can make it simpler to have my main interrogation answered. I decided to write it as a ...

I have the discrete Laplace operator on an infinite Hilbert space with an orthonormal basis $\psi_x$ ($\forall x \in \mathbb Z$), given by $\Delta \psi_x=\psi_{x-1}+\psi_{x+1}$. If I introduce a ...

In a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, the eigenvalues of the adjoint $A^*$ of an operator $A$ are the complex conjugates of the eigenvalues of $A$. But in infinite dimensions this need no longer be ...