Category Archives: Functional analysis

Complexification of a Real Krein Space. Part I

Introduction There is a rather unusual journal called the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. It aims to provide an open forum for academic and informal discussions of the “human face of mathematics,” focusing on aesthetic, cultural, historical, literary, pedagogical, philosophical, psychological, … Continue reading

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Pre-Hilbert space – its Dual and Completion

This post is something of an interlude. I was supposed to be writing about complexification: how to turn real vector spaces into complex ones, and what that means for quantum mechanics. In the complex setting, the standard formulation of quantum mechanics is … Continue reading

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