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Spectrum, resolvent, numerical range, functional calculus, operator semigroups. Special classes of operators: compact, Fredholm, dissipative, differential, integral, pseudodifferential, etc.

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If $A$ is a closed operator, is $A^k$ closed?

Here's a counterexample (subject perhaps to what you consider "natural"). Take a separable Hilbert space with orthonormal basis $\{u_n : n = 1, 2, \ldots\}$ and the operator $A$ defined by $$ A u_n = …
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Domain of Schrödinger operators

What you take as the domain is to some extent a matter of choice. You do want to be able to define $Su$, for $u$ in the domain, as a member of $L^2(\mathbb R)$. The real questions, I think, are whet …
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Are there any techniques that can be used in the case when a Neumann series doesn't converge?

If the spectrum of $A$ is contained in a disk $\{z: |z - a| \le r\}$ where $|1-a| > r$, then the series $\sum_{n=0}^\infty (1-a)^{-1-n} (A - a I)^n$ converges to $(I-A)^{-1}$.
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Fredholmness of formal selfadjoint operator $AA^*$ and Fredholmenss of $A$

Consider $H = L^2[0,\infty)$ with $(,) = \langle,\rangle$, $A: H \to H$ the shift operator $A f(t) = f(t+1)$, so that $$ A^* f(t) = \cases{f(t-1) & if $t \ge 1$\cr 0 & otherwise\cr …
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Dissipative operator on Banach spaces

No, and it's not true on Hilbert space either. For example, on $\mathbb C^2$ or $\mathbb R^2$ try $$ A = \pmatrix{0 & 0\cr 1 & 0\cr},\ x = \pmatrix{1\cr -1\cr},\ \lambda = 1$$ The spectrum is $\{0\}$, …
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Non-empty resolvent set, then operator closed?

What I would consider the obvious proof uses only the Banach space structure. If $\lambda$ is in the resolvent set, the graph $G(T)$ of $T$ maps in an obvious way to the graph of $(T-\lambda I)^{-1}$ …
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Simultaneous diagonalization of self-adjoint operators on Hilbert space

Apply the SNAG (Stone-Naimark-Godement-Ambrose) theorem to the unitary group generated by these operators.
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Multiplicity of eigenvalues of a compact operator and explicit decay rate of the eigenvalues

I doubt that you'll find a very general condition that requires multiplicity $1$, other than those that are essentially restatements of that fact. There will be conditions related to particular forms …
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On the domains and extensions of unbounded operators

Yes, of course. By definition of the adjoint operator, $\{[-A^* y, y]: y \in \mathscr D(A^*)\}$ is the orthogonal complement in $H \oplus H$ of the graph $\{[x, Ax]: x \in \mathscr D(A)\}$ of $A$. …
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analytic continuation argument

That closed form is $c^{1/2} (2n-1)$ when $c$ is a positive real. These eigenvalues must be analytic as functions of $c$ as long as they don't collide or go off to $\infty$, and they don't as long a …
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Spectrum of compact operator between different Banach spaces

By "$I$ is well-defined", I presume you mean you have a continuous injection $\iota$ of $X$ into $Y$. If $X$ and $Y$ are not isomorphic it will not be a bijection, because there is no continuous line …
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Pointwise convergence of polynomials to a function on a compact set K that is 1 on some disc...

Yes, using Runge's theorem. I'll assume wlog your $D$ is the unit disk $\{z: |z| \le 1\}$. Given positive integer $n$, take $$ K_n = \{z: (|z| \le 1 \ \text{or}\ 1 + 1/n \le |z| \le n)\ \text{and} …
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About the trace class operators and their motivation

You might look at Barry Simon's book "Trace Ideals and Their Applications", especially for applications in mathematical physics.
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Are "most" operators on an infinite-dimensional complex Banach space "diagonalizable"?

Consider the right shift $R([x_1, x_2, \ldots]) = [0, x_1, x_2, \ldots]$ on $\ell^2$. I claim the open ball of radius $1/2$ about $R$ contains no diagonalizable operators. Let $e_1 = [1,0,\ldots]$. …
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Strongly convergent series of bounded self-adjoint operators

Hopelessly false. Consider the one-dimensional case (so the $T_j$ are just numbers). Any function $f$ for which $\sum_j T_j$ convergent implies $\sum_j f(T_j)$ convergent is linear in a neighbourhoo …
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