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Take $H=L^2(\mathbb{R}^n, e^{-|x|^2}dx)$ as your Hilbert space, the $L^2$ space with weight $e^{-|x|^2}$, so that polynomials are in the space (Hermite Polynomials are an ONB for this space). Your ma …

In this answer I made more or less the same mistake over and over again. It turns out that sublinear functions are not as nice as I believed. I thought it would be best to delete it.

It is well-known, that if $A = \mathrm{id} + S$ is a bounded operator on a separable Hilbert Space $H$ with $S$ trace-class, then there is a well-defined notion of determinant, e.g. in terms of the si …

I have been trying to prove this for a while but failed so far. Let $A$ and $B$ are two positive, self-adjoint operators with compact resolvent on a Hilbert space $H$ defined on the same dense domai …

I learned that there is a holomorphic functional calculus for closed operators: If $T$ is a closed operator on a Hilbert space, and $f$ is a function that is holomorphic on some open subset $\Omega$ o …

Let $X$ be a compact manifold. Denote by $\mathscr{D}^\prime(X \times X)$ the space of tempered distributions on the cartesian product $X \times X$. Given two test functions $\varphi, \psi \in \mathsc …

Let $S$ be the (say, left) shift operator on $\ell^2(\mathbb{Z})$. For a non-zero vector $x \in \ell^2(\mathbb{Z})$, consider the set $$X = \{ S^n v \mid n \in \mathbb{Z} \}.$$ Is this always a total …

Take $V = L^2(M)$ with its usual Hilbert space topology and $W = C^\infty(M)$. Take $X = \mathrm{span}\{f\}$ for some non-smooth function. Then $X \cap W = \{0\}$, hence the kinematic tangent space of …

Let $1 \leq p < \infty$ be fixed and let $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ be open. Let $(Q_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ be a uniformly bounded family of operators on $L^p(\Omega)$, i.e. there exists $C>0$ su …

It is easy to see that the dual space of a bornological space $V$ (i.e. the space of bounded linear functionals) may be zero (just take any vector space with the power set as bornology). Hence in gene …

This post is related to this and this post. It is known that on a complete Riemannian manifold, the space $C^\infty_c(M)$ is generally not dense in the Sobolev spaces $W^{k, p}(M)$ ($1 \leq p < \inft …

If an operator $A$ on a Hilbert space $H$ generates a strongly continuous semigroup, does then the operator $B$ on $H \oplus H$ given by the matrix $$ B := \begin{pmatrix} 0 & \mathrm{id} \\ A & 0\end …

Recently, someone asked on MO about lecture notes from Graeme Segal's "Stanford lectures" on TQFT, and the answer was to check here. When scrolling over the notes, I stumpled of Prop. 2.8.2 in lectu …

Let $H$ be a separable, infinite-dimensional Hilbert space and let $\mathbb{B}(H)$ be the algebra of bounded operators on $H$. The norm topolology on $\mathbb{B}(H)$ is stricly finer, hence the identi …

I do not know much about the case of metric spaces, but for the heat kernel on a (noncompact) manifold without boundary, these estimates exist. There are various papers and book by Grigor`yan on that …