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Effective action of unbounded operators on subspaces outside their domains of definition
Consider a densely defined, self-adjoint operator
$$
H: \mathcal{D} \rightarrow \mathscr{H}.
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Assume for simplicity that $H$ is nonnegative.
We want to effectively restrict this operator $H$ to a ...
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Nice formula for powers of modified Bessel function
Let $K_\nu(z)$ be the modified Bessel function of second kind. I am looking the geometric series
$$1+aK_v+(aK_v)^2+(aK_v)^3...$$
I know there are formula for product of two such functions. I would ...
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Trace type convergence of the Laplacian on the box to the Laplacian on $\mathbb R^d$
Let $-\Delta \colon H^2(\mathbb R^d) \to \mathbb R^d$ be the (negative) Laplacian on the full space and $-\Delta_L$ the Laplacian acting on $L^2([-L,L]^d)$ with some boundary conditions making it self-...
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Looking for the eigenfunctions of the operator $T$ on $L_2(\mathbb R^+)$ defined by $Tf(x)=\int_0^\infty e^{-(x+y)^2/2}f(y)\,dy$
I'm looking to find a basis of eigenfunctions (and the corresponding eigenvectors) for the operator $T$ on $L_2(\mathbb R^+)$ defined by:
$$
Tf(x)=\int_0^\infty e^{-(x+y)^2/2}f(y)\,dy
$$
This operator ...
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Moment problem, ergodicity and spectral gap on the space of tempered distributions
Let $\{ S_n \}_{n=0}^\infty$ be a collection of tempered distributions where $S_0:=1$ and $S_n$ is a tempered distribution on $\mathbb{R}^n$.
Just below formula [5] in p.122 of the Fröhlich paper, ...
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Identification of Fock space and the $L^2$ space of tempered distributions
Let $\mathcal{S}'(\mathbb{R}^d)$ be the set of tempered distributions over $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $d\phi_C$ a Gaussian measure over $\mathcal{S}'(\mathbb{R}^d)$ with covariance operator $C$. Consider the ...
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About Friedrichs historical contribution to QFT cited in Reed and Simon
In the Reed and Simon book, Appendix X.7, they mention that Friedrichs provided the first examples of inequivalent representations of the canonical commutation relations via the Weyl relations in the ...
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Equality between operators, on dense subspace, from a quadratic form point of view
Let $L \ge 1$ and consider a finite box $\Omega = [0,L]^{d} \subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$. The set of functions:
$$\psi_{p}(x) = \frac{1}{L^{d/2}}e^{i\langle p,x\rangle} \quad p\in \frac{2\pi}{L}\mathbb{Z}^{...
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Inequality with Hermite polynomials
Consider the (physicist's) Hermite polynomials $H_n(x)$ which are divided by
$$\sqrt{\sqrt{\pi} 2^n n!}$$
for the purpose of normalization.
These are orthogonal with respect to the weight function $e^{...
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Basis vectors using anti-commuting operators?
Let $V$ be a finite-dimensional inner product space. Suppose $A_{1},...,A_{N}$ are anti-commuting operators, meaning that these are linear operators on $V$ that satisfy:
$$A_{i}A_{j}+A_{j}A_{i} = A_{i}...
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Definition of second quantization
The standard textbook for second quantization is Reed & Simon. However, I am a bit confused with their notation. They write:
Let $\mathscr{H}$ be a Hilbert space, $\mathcal{F}(\mathscr{H})$ the ...
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Prove that the following function is positive
Consider the following function:
$$K(x, y; t) = \sum_{n \geq 0} \frac{e^{-(2n+1)t}}{\sqrt{\pi} 2^n n!} H_n(x) H_n(y) \exp\left(-\frac{(x^2 + y^2)}{2}\right)
$$
This is Mehler's kernel, and can be ...
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AQFT from a Lagrangian
In physics, the fundamental description of physical theories frequently revolves around the concept of a Lagrangian. My expertise encompasses diverse algebraic formulations within the domain of ...
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Reference request: an introduction to nuclear spaces
I am looking for a short introduction to nuclear spaces and nuclear operators. I am interested in these spaces as they often arise in mathematically rigorous quantum field theories. I have read the ...
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Explicit form of this unitary transformation
Disclaimer: This question has its motivation from physics. It is probably not entirely rigorous at the moment. I just want to clarify some steps and try to make the arguments rigorous afterwards, if ...
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Regularity of solution of $(-\Delta + w)f = 0$
I am studying the following Schrödinger equation:
$$(-\Delta + w)f = 0$$
which represents a quantum state with zero energy. Here $w$ and $f$ are defined on $\mathbb{R}^{3}$. For simplicity, let us ...
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Structure of all Wightman QFTs
I have two related questions related to constructive/axiomatic QFT.
Is there a structure on the collection of all QFTs, as defined by the Wightman axioms? Do they form some type of category?
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Question about a step in the proof of the min-max principle
I honestly do not think this is a hard question, maybe it is even obvious but I tried MSE and had no success so far, so I am reproducing the question Question about the proof of the min-max principle ...
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Spectral threshold effect: examples
I know that the effect of homogenization can be treated as a spectral threshold effect. I want to know more examples of spectral threshold effects in mathematical physics.
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Any $L^\infty (\mathbb{R}^3)$ can be approximated pointwise almost everywhere by continuous function with compact support
In the book Fourier Analysis and Self-adjointess of Reed and Simon in the proof of the
Feynman-Kac formular the author states that for any $V\in L^\infty (\mathbb{R}^3)$ there is a sequence $(V_n)_n$ ...
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Spectral theorem for commuting operators
Let $A_{1},...,A_{n}$ be densely defined self-adjoint operators on a separable Hilbert space $\mathscr{H}$. Suppose these have a common dense domain $D\subset \mathscr{H}$ and satisfy commutation ...
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Probabilistic interpretation of von Neumann's approach to quantum mechanics
One of the basic postulates in the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics is that the probability of a measurement of an observable $A$ in the state $\psi \in \mathscr{H}$ to return a value in a ...
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Mach's principle, Newton's law and Hilbert sphere?
(This question has originally been posted on reddit, but I thought, that the question raised in the post above, might fit as well here on MO.)
I wanted to share with you something I stumbled upon ...
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About the proof of Lebesgue decomposition theorem for Hilbert spaces
Let $\mu$ be a Borel measure on $\mathbb{R}$. By the Lebesgue decomposition theorem, there exists measures $\mu_\text{pp}$, $\mu_\text{ac}$ and $\mu_\text{sing}$ such that $\mu = \mu_\text{pp}+\mu_\...
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Uniqueness of Borel functional calculus for unbounded self-adjoint operators
I was reading these short notes on the Borel functional calculus where the author discusses the uniqueness property of this calculus for both bounded and unbounded self-adjoint operators.
When it ...
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Characterization of the Hamiltonian's spectrum in quantum mechanics
This is basically the same question I made on physics stack exchange The spectrum of the Hamiltonian in quantum mechanics, but I got no answers so far and decided to move it to mathoverflow with some ...
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Segal's axioms for CFT
In Segal's papers about Conformal Field theory, https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~blockj/scfts/segal.pdf, in section $1$, he describes the evolution of a system (a string moving about in a manifold $M$) by ...
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Schrödinger equation approximation – continuity of eigenvalues with respect to potential
The question has been crossposted from Stackexchange after receiving no answers.
Setup: the time-independent Schrödinger equation (eigenvalue problem):
$(-\frac{\hbar^2}{2m}\Delta +V)\psi = E\psi$
(On ...
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GNS Representation — A theorem from Thirring’s book
After the GNS representation for $C^{*}$-algebras is presented in Thirring's book Quantum mathematical physics, the author states the following theorem.
The Spectral Theorem: For any given Hermitian (...
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Is there an example of a causally supported Schwartz function on $\mathbb{R}^4$ invariant under the Lorentz transform?
I am working on $\mathbb{R}^4$ with the sign convention $(1,-1,-1,-1)$.
I wonder if there is Schwartz function $f(x)$ on $\mathbb{R}^4$ such that the support satisfies the condition $0<x^2 < 4m^...
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Can two eigenfunctions be almost linearly dependent in a region?
Consider the Schrödinger operator $H=-\Delta+|x|^a$ on $\mathbb{R}$, where $a>0$. Since the potential is growing at $\infty$, we have compact resolvent thus the eigenvalues are discrete and tend to ...
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Generalizing Kato-Seiler-Simon-type inequalities to diamagnetic operators
I recently learned about estimates one can perform with operators on $L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$ given as $f(x)g(-i\nabla)$, see Chapter 4 in Trace Ideals and their Applications by Professor Barry Simon (the ...
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Linearization stability condition
The following is a theorem from Fischer and Marsden's 1975's paper: Linearization stability of nonlinear PDEs.
Theorem.
Let $X, Y$ be Banach manifolds and $\Phi: X \rightarrow Y$ be $C^1$. Let $x_0 \...
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Spectral perturbation theory of discrete spectra in presence of continuous spectrum
This is a 2 part question:
1). I am looking for a (hopefully accessible to beginning grad student who knows matrix perturbation theory) reference for doing concrete calculations of perturbed discrete ...
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"Open systems" version of Stone's Theorem for one-parameter groups of quantum operations
Let $H$ be a Hilbert space, which we interpret as a space of quantum states.
If $U(t):H\to H$ is a unitary norm-continuous one-parameter group with $U(0)=I$, (essentially) Cauchy's functional ...
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Fourier transform harmonic oscillator eigenstates
The normalized eigenfunctions of the quantum harmonic oscillator are
$$\psi_{n}(x)= \frac{1}{\sqrt{2^n n!}} e^{-x^2/2}H_n(x),$$
where $n \in \mathbb N_0$ and $H_n$ is the $n$-th Hermite polynomial, ...
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Sharpest version of semiclassical Calderon-Vaillancourt theorem
Let $S$ be the space of symbols defined by $$S:=\{a\in C^{\infty}(T^*\mathbb{R}^d):\forall \alpha,\beta\in\mathbb{Z}^d,\, |\partial_x^{\alpha}\partial_{\xi}^{\beta}a(x,\xi)|\le C_{\alpha\beta}\},$$ ...
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What is the finite-temperature orthogonal/symplectic Tracy-Widom distribution?
The Tracy–Widom distributions admit many interpretations.
One of them is related to quantum mechanics: If we consider $N$ non-interacting fermions confined by the potential $V(x) = x^2$, then in the ...
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Pullbacks of LCS-valued distributions
Suppose $X$ is a locally convex space. Since the distributions $\mathcal{D}'\!(M)$ ($M$ a manifold) are a nuclear space, there is a canonical meaning to the topological tensor product $X\,\widehat{\...
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Product of Heavisides: calculus vs Fourier transform vs wavefront set
I decided to ask this question here, since I did not get any answer from MSE and perhaps this topic is somewhat far from MSE's topics. I am following the paper here. I am trying to understand how to ...
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Can any POVM be induced by a quantum instrument?
I suspect this is the obvious result of something in operator algebras, but that's far outside my field.
Recall that a projection-valued measure is a map $E$ from a sigma-algebra $\mathcal{F}$ on ...
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Orthonormal basis of eigenvectors of Hamiltonian - Is there any theorem justifying the physicist approach?
In his book The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Dirac states:
"We call a real dynamical variable whose eigenstates form a complete set an observable."
To Dirac, any observable has a ...
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What is the justification for using Wiener integrals to integrate over a space of differentiable functions?
In the literature on stiff/semiflexible polymer chains modelled as continuous chains rather than as discrete links, the partition function (among other things) is taken to be an integral over the ...
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Trouble understanding Lax method for KDV equation for inverse scattering method
I am trying to learn the Lax pair condition on my own so that I can eventually learn the inverse scattering method. I am following a paper by Tuncay Aktosun ("Inverse scattering transform and the ...
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Diagonalization of a specific Dirac operator
A few hours ago, a question was posed asking for the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Dirac operator
$$
H=\begin{pmatrix} x & 0 & -i\partial_{x} & \bar{z} \\ 0 & x & z & i\...
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$H^s$ norm of dispersive semigroup
The Bourgain space is $X^{s,b} := X^{s,b}(\mathbb R \times \mathbb{T}^3)$ is the completion of $C^\infty (\mathbb R; H^s(\mathbb{T}^3))$ under the norm
$$\| u\|_{X^{s,b}}:= \|e^{- i t \triangle} u(t,x)...
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Reed-Simon Vol. IV: Question regarding convergence of eigenvalues
I am reading through Chapter XIII.16 of Reed and Simon's Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics IV: Analysis of Operators about Schrödinger operators with periodic potentials. Since the topic is kind ...
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Resource on spectral theory for differential operators with symmetry groups
In Methods of Mathematical Physics IV by Reed and Simon, the authors cover Floquet theory in detail in Section XIII.16. On page 280, they note that
"A part of the analysis of [the periodic ...
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Intuition behind bound of second moment of Greens function by fractional moment
Consider the Hilbert space $ \mathcal{H} = l^2(\mathbb{Z}^d)$ for some dimension $d$ with basis given by the basisvectors $\{ \vert {x} \rangle \}_{x \in \mathbb{Z}^d} $.
Let $A$ be an either self-...
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In what precise sense is quantum (i.e., non-commutative) probability not expressable in terms of classical probability?
The quantum set-up has many settings, so let's fix some definitions. I will be taking the Hilbert space approach with a minor modification that I will make explicit.
We begin with a Hilbert space $\...
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