A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

On infinite matrices, Schur products and operator measures




AuthorsKiukas J, Lahti P, Pellonpaa JP

PublisherPERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

Publication year2006

Journal:Reports on Mathematical Physics

Journal name in sourceREPORTS ON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

Journal acronymREP MATH PHYS

Volume58

Issue3

First page 375

Last page393

Number of pages19

ISSN0034-4877

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0034-4877(06)80959-6


Abstract
Measures with values in the set of sesquilinear forms on a subspace of a Hilbert space are of interest in quantum mechanics, since they can be interpreted as observables with only a restricted set of possible measurement preparations. In this paper, we consider the question under which conditions such a measure extends to an operator-valued measure, in the concrete setting where the measure is defined on the Borel sets of the interval [0, 2 pi) and is covariant with respect to shifts. In this case, the measure is characterized with a single infinite matrix, and it turns out that a basic sufficient condition for the extensibility is that the matrix be a Schur multiplier. Accordingly, we also study the connection between the extensibility problem and the theory of Schur multipliers. In particular, we define some new norms for Schur multipliers.



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