Metric and Hilbert Spaces
Arun Ram
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3010 Australia
aram@unimelb.edu.au
Last updated: 4 November 2014
Lecture 41: Eigenspaces of self adjoint operators
Let be an inner product space.
Let be a self adjoint operator.
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If is an eigenvector for then the eigenvalue of is in
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Assume and Then
If then
and
So
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Assume
Let and be eigenvalues of and let
Then is orthogonal to
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Proof. |
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To show: If and
then
Assume
Assume and
Then
since
So
So or
Since then
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Let be a Hilbert space and let be a bounded self adjoint
operator. Let
and
Then
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Proof. |
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Assume (otherwise replace by
If then
If set
Then
So
for all
So
Assume and
To show:
since
So
So
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Let be a compact linear operator.
Assume
Let
Then is finite.
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Proof. |
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Proof by contradiction.
Assume is infinite dimensional.
Let
be an orthonormal sequence in
Then
and
So
does not have a convergent subsequence.
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Let be a nonzero self adjoint compact operator
Then there exists an orthonormal basis of eigenvectors of
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Proof. |
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Let
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If then
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Proof. |
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Let and Then
since eigenvalues of a self adjoint operator are in
So
So or
So or
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(A') |
If then
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Choose an orthonormal basis of
Let
where
To show:
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Notes and References
These are a typed copy of Lecture 41 from a series of handwritten lecture notes for the class Metric and Hilbert Spaces given on October 11, 2014.
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