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Stochastic Spectral Theory for Selfadjoint Feller Operators

A Functional Integration Approach

Birkhäuser

Part of the book series: Probability and Its Applications (PA)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Basic Assumptions of Stochastic Spectral Analysis: Free Feller Operators

    • Michael Demuth, Jan A. van Casteren
    Pages 1-52
  3. Perturbations of Free Feller Operators

    • Michael Demuth, Jan A. van Casteren
    Pages 53-102
  4. Proof of Continuity and Symmetry of Feynman-Kac Kernels

    • Michael Demuth, Jan A. van Casteren
    Pages 103-128
  5. Resolvent and Semigroup Differences for Feller Operators: Operator Norms

    • Michael Demuth, Jan A. van Casteren
    Pages 129-160
  6. Hilbert-Schmidt Properties of Resolvent and Semigroup Differences

    • Michael Demuth, Jan A. van Casteren
    Pages 161-204
  7. Trace Class Properties of Semigroup Differences

    • Michael Demuth, Jan A. van Casteren
    Pages 205-232
  8. Convergence of Resolvent Differences

    • Michael Demuth, Jan A. van Casteren
    Pages 233-256
  9. Spectral Properties of Self-adjoint Feller Operators

    • Michael Demuth, Jan A. van Casteren
    Pages 257-332
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 333-463

About this book

A beautiful interplay between probability theory (Markov processes, martingale theory) on the one hand and operator and spectral theory on the other yields a uniform treatment of several kinds of Hamiltonians such as the Laplace operator, relativistic Hamiltonian, Laplace-Beltrami operator, and generators of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. For such operators regular and singular perturbations of order zero and their spectral properties are investigated.
A complete treatment of the Feynman-Kac formula is given. The theory is applied to such topics as compactness or trace class properties of differences of Feynman-Kac semigroups, preservation of absolutely continuous and/or essential spectra and completeness of scattering systems.
The unified approach provides a new viewpoint of and a deeper insight into the subject. The book is aimed at advanced students and researchers in mathematical physics and mathematics with an interest in quantum physics, scattering theory, heat equation, operator theory, probability theory and spectral theory.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

    Michael Demuth

  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp (UIA), Antwerp, Belgium

    Jan A. Casteren

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