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Positivity of spectral shift functions and infinite-dimensional BMV conjecture

Functional Analysis 2025-12-08 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

We obtain a solution to the Bessis-Moussa-Villani conjecture for a trace-class perturbation of a semi-bounded operator and answer affirmatively the question on positivity of higher order spectral shift functions in the setting of Schatten--von Neumann perturbations of (possibly unbounded) self-adjoint operators.

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@article{arxiv.2512.05587,
  title  = {Positivity of spectral shift functions and infinite-dimensional BMV conjecture},
  author = {Chandan Pradhan and Anna Skripka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.05587},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages