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The product formula for regularized Fredholm determinants

Spectral Theory 2020-11-30 v3

Abstract

For trace class operators A,BB1(H)A, B \in \mathcal{B}_1(\mathcal{H}) (H\mathcal{H} a complex, separable Hilbert space), the product formula for Fredholm determinants holds in the familiar form detH((IHA)(IHB))=detH(IHA)detH(IHB). {\det}_{\mathcal{H}} ((I_{\mathcal{H}} - A) (I_{\mathcal{H}} - B)) = {\det}_{\mathcal{H}} (I_{\mathcal{H}} - A) {\det}_{\mathcal{H}} (I_{\mathcal{H}} - B). When trace class operators are replaced by Hilbert--Schmidt operators A,BB2(H)A, B \in \mathcal{B}_2(\mathcal{H}) and the Fredholm determinant detH(IHA){\det}_{\mathcal{H}}(I_{\mathcal{H}} - A), AB1(H)A \in \mathcal{B}_1(\mathcal{H}), by the 2nd regularized Fredholm determinant detH,2(IHA)=detH((IHA)exp(A)){\det}_{\mathcal{H},2}(I_{\mathcal{H}} - A) = {\det}_{\mathcal{H}} ((I_{\mathcal{H}} - A) \exp(A)), AB2(H)A \in \mathcal{B}_2(\mathcal{H}), the product formula must be replaced by detH,2((IHA)(IHB))=detH,2(IHA)detH,2(IHB)exp(tr(AB)). {\det}_{\mathcal{H},2} ((I_{\mathcal{H}} - A) (I_{\mathcal{H}} - B)) = {\det}_{\mathcal{H},2} (I_{\mathcal{H}} - A) {\det}_{\mathcal{H},2} (I_{\mathcal{H}} - B) \exp(- {\rm tr}(AB)). The product formula for the case of higher regularized Fredholm determinants detH,k(IHA){\det}_{\mathcal{H},k}(I_{\mathcal{H}} - A), ABk(H)A \in \mathcal{B}_k(\mathcal{H}), kNk \in \mathbb{N}, k2k \geq 2, does not seem to be easily accessible and hence this note aims at filling this gap in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.2007.12834,
  title  = {The product formula for regularized Fredholm determinants},
  author = {Thomas Britz and Alan Carey and Fritz Gesztesy and Roger Nichols and Fedor Sukochev and Dmitriy Zanin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.12834},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

10 pages, reference added, extended proofs in Sect. 2 a bit

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