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Spectral theorem for unbounded normal operators in quaternionic Hilbert spaces

Spectral Theory 2017-11-07 v4

Abstract

In this article, we prove the following spectral theorem for right linear normal operators (need not to be bounded) in quaternionic Hilbert spaces: Let TT be an unbounded right quaternionic linear normal operator in a quaternionic Hilbert space HH with domain D(T)\mathcal{D}(T), a right linear subspace of HH and fix a unit imaginary quaternion, say mm. Then there exists a Hilbert basis N\mathcal{N} of HH and a unique quaternionic spectral measure FF on the σ\sigma- algebra of Cm+\mathbb C_m^{+} (upper half plane of the slice complex plane Cm\mathbb C_m) associated to TT such that \begin{equation*} \left\langle x | Ty \right\rangle = \int\limits_{\sigma_{S}(T) \cap \mathbb{C}_{m}^{+}}\lambda \ dF_{x,y}(\lambda),\; \text{ for all}\; y \in \mathcal{D}(T),\ x \in H, \end{equation*} where Fx,yF_{x,y} is a quaternion valued measure on the σ\sigma- algebra of Cm+\mathbb{C}_{m}^{+}, for any x,yHx,y\in H and σS(T)\sigma_{S}(T) is the spherical spectrum of TT. Here the representation of TT is established with respect to the Hilbert basis N\mathcal{N}. To prove this result, we reduce the problem to the complex case and obtain the result by using the classical result.

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@article{arxiv.1509.03007,
  title  = {Spectral theorem for unbounded normal operators in quaternionic Hilbert spaces},
  author = {G. Ramesh and P. Santhosh Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.03007},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

We wrongly cited a result (see page 9, line 10). We will update the article as soon as we fill this gap

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