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Charting the operator terrain

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John Ernest

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1976; Volume 6, Number 171
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1871-8 (print); 978-1-4704-0755-1 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0171
MathSciNet review: 0463941

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • Introduction
  • 1. Equivalence relations and classification theory
  • 2. The spectrum and quasi-spectrum of an operator
  • 3. Decomposition theory
  • 4. Spectral multiplicity theory and the unitary equivalence problem for operators
  • 5. Applications, examples and open questions