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Spectral Theorem for quaternionic normal operators: Multiplication form

Spectral Theory 2017-11-03 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

Let H\mathcal{H} be a right quaternionic Hilbert space and let TT be a quaternionic normal operator with the domain D(T)H\mathcal{D}(T) \subset \mathcal{H}. Then for a fixed unit imaginary quaternion mm, there exists a Hilbert basis Nm\mathcal{N}_{m} of H\mathcal{H}, a measure space (Ω,μ)(\Omega, \mu), a unitary operator U ⁣:HL2(Ω;H;μ)U \colon \mathcal{H} \to L^{2}(\Omega; \mathbb{H}; \mu) and a μ\mu - measurable function ϕ ⁣:ΩCm\phi \colon \Omega \to \mathbb{C}_m (here Cm={α+mβ;  α,βR}\mathbb{C}_{m} = \{\alpha + m \beta; \;\alpha, \beta \in \mathbb{R}\}) such that Tx=UMϕUx,  \mboxforall  xD(T), Tx = U^{*}M_{\phi}Ux, \; \mbox{for all}\; x\in \mathcal{D}(T), where MϕM_{\phi} is the multiplication operator on L2(Ω;H;μ)L^{2}(\Omega; \mathbb{H}; \mu) induced by ϕ\phi with U(D(T))D(Mϕ) U(\mathcal{D}(T)) \subseteq \mathcal{D}(M_{\phi}). In the process, we prove that every complex Hilbert space is a slice Hilbert space. We establish these results by reducing it to the complex case then lift it to the quaternionic case.

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@article{arxiv.1603.00697,
  title  = {Spectral Theorem for quaternionic normal operators: Multiplication form},
  author = {G. Ramesh and P. Santhosh Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.00697},
  year   = {2017}
}

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