PhyslibAlpha.AlgebraicFramework.HilbertSpace.Unbounded.Basic
Weak-operator-topology spectral measures
`Physlib.QuantumMechanics.Operators.SpectralTheory.SpectralMeasure` already gives a star-projection-valued measure `Set α → H →L[ℂ] H`, σ-additive in the *norm* topology on bounded operators. That norm additivity is too strong a requirement for the spectral measures produced by the (still-to-come) unbounded spectral theorem: an unbounded self-adjoint operator's spectral projections need only add up weakly, on each pair of test vectors, not in operator norm. This file gives that weaker notion its own type, `WOTSpectralMeasure`, valued in Mathlib's weak-operator- topology copy of the bounded operators, `H →WOT[ℂ] H` (`Mathlib.Analysis.InnerProductSpace. WeakOperatorTopology`).
`WOTSpectralMeasure` is otherwise a verbatim analogue of `SpectralMeasure`: same structure shape (`VectorMeasure` plus "every value is a star projection" plus "`univ ↦ 1`"), same basic algebra (idempotence, orthogonality on disjoint sets, intersection multiplicativity, commutativity). The two cannot share a definition because they are literally valued in different types (`H →L[ℂ] H` vs. `H →WOT[ℂ] H` carry the same ring structure but different topologies, hence different `VectorMeasure` targets) — but `SpectralMeasure.toWOT`, at the end of this file, is the coercion that turns any norm-continuous `SpectralMeasure` into a `WOTSpectralMeasure` for free, so nothing built on `SpectralMeasure` elsewhere in this codebase needs re-deriving to be usable here.
This file also records the covariance of the type under a measurable pushforward of the underlying measurable space (`map`) — needed to move a spectral measure along a change of spectral variable, e.g. through the Cayley transform.
Main definitions
- `WOTSpectralMeasure` : a star-projection-valued measure, σ-additive in the weak-operator topology. - `comp_eq_of_inter` : `μS A * μS B = μS (A ∩ B)` for measurable `A`, `B`. - `map` : pushing a weak spectral measure forward along a measurable function. - `SpectralMeasure.toWOT` : a norm-continuous spectral measure, viewed weakly.
A. The structure and its basic algebra
B. Pushforward along a measurable map
C. Coming from a norm-continuous `SpectralMeasure`
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The space is torsion-free
Let be a complex Hilbert space. The space of continuous linear operators on equipped with the weak operator topology, denoted by , is torsion-free as an additive group. That is, for any operator and any positive integer , if , then .
Coercion from WOT spectral measure to vector measure
This instance defines a coercion from a weak-operator-topology (WOT) spectral measure on a measurable space to a vector measure on with values in the space of continuous linear operators on a complex Hilbert space equipped with the weak operator topology (denoted ).
Coercion of a `WOTSpectralMeasure` to a function
Let be a measurable space and be a complex Hilbert space. This instance defines a coercion from a weak-operator-topology (WOT) spectral measure (of type `WOTSpectralMeasure α H`) to a function. This allows a spectral measure to be applied to a set , returning a bounded linear operator in the space of operators equipped with the weak operator topology, denoted as .
is a star projection
Let be a WOT-spectral measure on a set taking values in the space of bounded linear operators on a complex Hilbert space equipped with the weak operator topology. For any subset , the operator is a star projection (that is, it is both self-adjoint and idempotent).
The WOT spectral measure of the universal set is the identity operator ()
Let be a weak-operator-topology spectral measure (a `WOTSpectralMeasure`) on a measurable space with values in the bounded operators on a Hilbert space . The measure of the universal set is equal to the identity operator on , denoted as .
for non-measurable
Let be a measurable space and be a weak-operator-topology spectral measure on . If a subset is not a measurable set, then the value of the spectral measure at is the zero operator, denoted by .
Let be a weak-operator-topology spectral measure on a measurable space . For any subset , the operator is idempotent, meaning that the composition of the operator with itself satisfies .
for disjoint measurable sets and
Let be a weak-operator-topology (WOT) spectral measure on a measurable space . For any measurable sets , if and are disjoint (i.e., ), then the product of the corresponding operators is zero: .
for weak-operator-topology spectral measures
Let be a Hilbert space and be a spectral measure on a measurable space that takes values in star-projections on and is -additive in the weak operator topology. For any two measurable sets , the product (composition) of the operators and satisfies .
Commutativity of spectral projections and
Let be a weak-operator-topology (WOT) spectral measure on a measurable space . For any two sets , the associated spectral projections and commute, satisfying .
Pushforward of a WOT spectral measure
Given a weak-operator-topology (WOT) spectral measure on a measurable space taking values in the bounded operators on a Hilbert space , and a measurable function to another measurable space , the pushforward measure is the WOT spectral measure on defined by for any measurable set .
Evaluation of the pushforward WOT spectral measure
Let be a weak-operator-topology (WOT) spectral measure on a measurable space . For any measurable function and any measurable set , the pushforward measure evaluated at is given by
Let be a Hilbert space and be a weak-operator-topology (WOT) spectral measure on a measurable space taking values in the bounded operators on . Given measurable functions and between measurable spaces, for any measurable set , the value of the iterated pushforward measure at is given by where denotes the composition of the functions and is the preimage of .
for WOT spectral measures
Let , and be measurable spaces, and let be a complex Hilbert space. Suppose is a weak-operator-topology (WOT) spectral measure on taking values in the bounded operators on . For any measurable functions and , the pushforward of the spectral measure along followed by the pushforward along is equal to the pushforward of along the composition :
for WOT spectral measures
Let be a weak-operator-topology (WOT) spectral measure on a measurable space . The pushforward of along the identity map is equal to the original measure, that is, .
-additivity of under inner products
Let be a measurable space and a complex Hilbert space. Let be a weak-operator-topology spectral measure () on taking values in the bounded operators on . For any sequence of pairwise disjoint measurable sets and any vectors , the sum of the inner products converges to the inner product of the measure of the union of the sets, i.e., where the convergence is in the sense of summable families in .
Additive homomorphism
The additive group homomorphism from the space of continuous linear operators on a complex Hilbert space , denoted , to the space of continuous linear operators on endowed with the weak operator topology, denoted . This map is the identity on the underlying operators, effectively "forgetting" the norm topology in favor of the weak operator topology while preserving the additive structure.
Continuity of the map
Let be a complex Hilbert space. Let denote the space of bounded linear operators on equipped with the operator norm topology, and let be the same space equipped with the weak operator topology. The additive homomorphism , which maps an operator in the norm topology to itself in the weak operator topology, is continuous.
Spectral measure viewed in the weak operator topology
Let be a measurable space and be a complex Hilbert space. Given a spectral measure on with values in the space of bounded linear operators (which is -additive with respect to the operator norm topology), `SpectralMeasure.toWOT` constructs the corresponding weak-operator-topology spectral measure. This measure takes the same star-projection values for each measurable set , but is viewed as being -additive with respect to the weak operator topology on .
Evaluation of the WOT-converted spectral measure
Let be a measurable space and be a complex Hilbert space. Let be a spectral measure on taking values in the space of bounded linear operators (norm-topology). For any set , the value of the corresponding weak-operator-topology spectral measure evaluated at is equal to the operator viewed as an element of equipped with the weak operator topology.
