Monthly Archives: June 2026

Spectral family and resolution of the identity

This post is (hopefully) the last one in a short series on real and complex Hilbert spaces. After this post we will return to the study of real and complex spaces with indefinite metric, Krein spaces and their geometry. In … Continue reading

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Square root lemma

This post is a continuation of Positive operators II, We begin by recalling the main fact proved there, then explain how a classical binomial series leads to a functional calculus for the square root of a positive operator. Corollary  1 … Continue reading

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Positive operators II

This post is a continuation of Positive operators I. The aim here is to explain how the norm of a bounded self–adjoint operator can be expressed in terms of the associated quadratic form. We will first recall the Riesz representation … Continue reading

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