ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
Commutativity of compact selfadjoint operators
Authors 1, 2
Affiliations
- IMMD IX, Universität Erlangen, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
- School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
Abstract
The relationship between the joint spectrum γ(A) of an n-tuple of selfadjoint operators and the support of the corresponding Weyl calculus T(A) : f ↦ f(A) is discussed. It is shown that one always has γ(A) ⊂ supp (T(A)). Moreover, when the operators are compact, equality occurs if and only if the operators mutually commute. In the non-commuting case the equality fails badly: While γ(A) is countable, supp(T(A)) has to be an uncountable set. An example is given showing that, for non-compact operators, coincidence of γ(A) and supp (T(A)) no longer implies commutativity of the set .
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