This textbook provides a modern account of the theory of unbounded self‑adjoint operators on Hilbert spaces and their spectral theory, with emphasis on applications in mathematical physics (Schrödinger operators) and analysis (Dirichlet and Neumann Laplacians, Sturm–Liouville operators, and the Hamburger moment problem). The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and features an extensive treatment of the self‑adjoint extension theory of symmetric operators. In addition, a number of advanced special topics are presented at the textbook level, accompanied by numerous illustrative examples and exercises.
The main themes of the book are:
With several updates and additions, this edition further enhances an established standard reference and accessible entry point to the subject.
This textbook provides a modern account of the theory of unbounded self‑adjoint operators on Hilbert spaces and their spectral theory, with emphasis on applications in mathematical physics (Schrödinger operators) and analysis (Dirichlet and Neumann Laplacians, Sturm–Liouville operators, and the Hamburger moment problem). The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and features an extensive treatment of the self‑adjoint extension theory of symmetric operators. In addition, a number of advanced special topics are presented at the textbook level, accompanied by numerous illustrative examples and exercises.
The main themes of the book are:
With several updates and additions, this edition further enhances an established standard reference and accessible entry point to the subject.
Konrad Schmüdgen
Banach space Hamburger moment problem Hilbert space Perturbation of self-adjointness Schrödinger operators Self-adjoint extension theory Self-adjoint operators Spectral theory Sturm-Liouville operators Cayley transform Krein transform Boundary triplets