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On Borel equivalence relations related to self-adjoint operators

Logic 2014-09-09 v2 Functional Analysis Spectral Theory

Abstract

In a recent work, the authors studied various Borel equivalence relations defined on the Polish space SA(H){\rm{SA}}(H) of all (not necessarily bounded) self-adjoint operators on a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space HH. In this paper we study the domain equivalence relation EdomSA(H)E_{\rm{dom}}^{{\rm{SA}}(H)} given by AEdomSA(H)BdomA=domBAE_{\rm{dom}}^{{\rm{SA}}(H)}B\Leftrightarrow {\rm{dom}}{A}={\rm{dom}}{B} and determine its exact Borel complexity: EdomSA(H)E_{\rm{dom}}^{{\rm{SA}}(H)} is an FσF_{\sigma} (but not KσK_{\sigma}) equivalence relation which is continuously bireducible with the orbit equivalence relation ERNE_{\ell^{\infty}}^{\mathbb{R}^{\mathbb{N}}} of the standard Borel group =(N,R)\ell^{\infty}=\ell^{\infty}(\mathbb{N},\mathbb{R}) on RN\mathbb{R}^{\mathbb{N}}. This, by Rosendal's Theorem, shows that EdomSA(H)E_{\rm{dom}}^{{\rm{SA}}(H)} is universal for KσK_{\sigma} equivalence relations. Moreover, we show that generic self-adjoint operators have purely singular continuous spectrum equal to R\mathbb{R}.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1405.0860,
  title  = {On Borel equivalence relations related to self-adjoint operators},
  author = {Hiroshi Ando and Yasumichi Matsuzawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0860},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

10 pages, added more detail of the proof of Proposition 3.8 after the referee's suggestion

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