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Model theory of Hilbert spaces expanded by normal operators

Logic 2025-07-30 v1 Functional Analysis Spectral Theory

Abstract

We study expansions of Hilbert spaces with a bounded normal operator TT. We axiomatize this theory in a natural language and identify all of its completions. We prove the definability of the adjoint TT^* and prove quantifier elimination for every completion after adding TT^* to the language. We identify types with measures on the spectrum of the operator and show that the logic topology on the type space corresponds to the weak*-topology on the space of measures. We also give a precise formula for the metric on the space of 11-types. We prove all completions are stable and characterize the stability spectrum of the theory in terms of the spectrum of the operator. We also show all completions, regardless of their spectrum, are ω\omega-stable up to perturbations.

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@article{arxiv.2507.21894,
  title  = {Model theory of Hilbert spaces expanded by normal operators},
  author = {Alexander Berenstein and Nicolás Cuervo Ovalle and Isaac Goldbring},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.21894},
  year   = {2025}
}