Talk:Hille–Yosida theorem

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[edit] Resolvent formalism

Hi CSTAR, fantastic article that I'm still trying to grok. I would like to sugges a low-brow section, or maybe a distinct article, called, for example, resolvent formalism, that uses the standard notation commonly seen in books on quantum mechanics. (even though its somewhat poorly defined) Viz:

The resolvent captures the spectral properties of an operator in the analytic structure of the resolvent. Given an operator A, the resolvent may be defined as

R(z;A)= \frac{1}{A-zI}

The residue may be understood to be a projection operator

\operatorname{res} R(z;A)\vert_{z=\lambda} = \frac{-1}{2\pi i} \oint_{C_\lambda} R(\zeta;A) d\zeta = P_\lambda = \vert \psi_\lambda \rangle \langle \psi_\lambda \vert

where λ corresponds to an eigenvalue of A

A\vert \psi_\lambda \rangle = \lambda \vert \psi_\lambda \rangle

and Cλ is a contour in the positive dirction around the eigenvalue λ.

The above is more-or-less a textbook defintion of the resolvant as used in QM. Unfortunately, I've never seen anything "better" than this, in particlar, don't know how to qualify \vert \psi_\lambda \rangle. Must this be an element of a Hilbert space? Something more general? Frechet space? Banach space? Does the operator A have to be Hermitian? Nuclear? Trace-class? or maybe not?

Since the above is occasionally seen in the lit. I'd like to get a good solid article for it, with the questions at least partly addressed (and it seems the Hille-Yosida theorem adresses these, in part). Let me know what you think. linas 21:30, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

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