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A common core with graph-differentiable orbits integrates Heisenberg commutators
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice and Countable Choice. Let be self-adjoint operators on a complex Hilbert space , where , and let be a real skew-symmetric matrix. Define by the Borel functional calculus. Suppose a complex linear subspace has the following properties:
- is a core for every : it is contained in and is dense there for the graph norm . In particular it is dense in .
- and for every and every real .
- On , for all .
- For every and , the orbit is differentiable in the graph norm of , with derivative . Explicitly, in addition to the Hilbert-space derivative, the required limit is
These are sufficient regularity hypotheses, stronger than a commutator identity on a common invariant dense domain alone. Then, as bounded operators on all of ,
For put
Then is strongly continuous, unitary-valued, , and
In particular, taking , and gives the finite-mode exponentiated Weyl relations at any real central parameter . If , the restrictions and give an algebraic -module on in the normalization of Polynomial Weyl algebra and its central parameter. The conclusion applies to these eligible Hilbert-space realizations; it asserts no exponentiation for arbitrary algebraic modules, universal -completion, or uniqueness of representations.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The finite family, matrix, common core and graph-orbit hypotheses in the Statement, under The Axiom of Choice and The Axiom of Countable Choice ().
A self-adjoint operator generates a strongly continuous unitary group: functional calculus gives strongly continuous unitary , with derivative domain exactly and derivative there.
Stone's theorem: unitary groups and self-adjoint generators: two strongly continuous unitary groups with the same self-adjoint generator and exact generator domain agree.
Symmetric, self-adjoint and essentially self-adjoint operators: self-adjoint operators are closed and have no proper symmetric extensions. Domains and graphs have the meaning of Unbounded linear operators: domain, graph and extension.
Polynomial Weyl algebra and its central parameter: , where has basis and is generated by the same-type commutators and .
Mean value inequality for a differentiable Banach-valued curve: a continuous Banach-valued curve with zero real-variable derivative on an interval is constant there. A complex Hilbert space is a Banach space, read as a real space for this derivative.
Universal property of the tensor algebra: a linear map from a vector space to a unital associative algebra extends to a unital algebra homomorphism from its tensor algebra.
A ring homomorphism whose kernel contains a two-sided ideal factors uniquely through the quotient ring: a ring homomorphism whose kernel contains a two-sided ideal factors uniquely through the quotient by that ideal.
Unital left and right modules over a ring; unqualified module means left module: a unital algebra action satisfying the multiplication and identity laws is a unital left module.
The ideal generated by a subset and principal ideals: the ideal generated by a set is contained in every two-sided ideal containing that set.
Proof
Fix and , abbreviate and , and set . Every product is defined: , , and . The graph-orbit hypothesis gives the norm derivative of as . The difference quotient for splits into and . Strong continuity and norm one of handle the first term; [F1] applies to the fixed vector in the second. Consequently . The curve is norm differentiable on with derivative zero, hence is continuous there; its real-variable norm derivative is also its Fréchet derivative, since the remainder divided by tends to zero. For any , apply [F5] to on the closed interval with endpoints (the case is immediate). It gives , so .
For fixed , the closed operator has domain and is self-adjoint: substituting in the adjoint-domain condition gives . Moreover is a core for , because transports graph approximations from the core of and . The operator is closed on : convergence of and implies convergence of and closedness of applies. The two graph norms of and are equivalent by the triangle inequality, so is a core for this shifted operator as well. Step 1.1 identifies their restrictions to ; taking their graph closures yields the exact operator equality , including equality of domains. In particular has now been proved, rather than assumed.
Fix and consider and . Both are strongly continuous unitary groups by their formulas and [F1]. For , taking difference quotients after unitary conjugation shows its exact derivative domain is , with derivative . For , differentiating the scalar factor shows that every vector of has derivative . Conversely, if the derivative of at zero exists, writing proves the derivative of exists, so by [F1]. Thus the exact generators agree by step 2.1; [F2] gives . Multiplying on the right by proves the claimed pairwise Weyl relation on all of . This is the functional-calculus exponentiation step; no power series of unbounded operators was used.
All factors defining are unitary, and . Their finite product is strongly continuous jointly in : subtract the products at two points and telescope, using norm one for the factors and strong continuity on each fixed vector in the finitely many resulting terms. To multiply and , move each left past for . Step 3.1 contributes for each such pair; same-index factors combine by the group law. The scalar exponent after dividing by the defining scalar of is . This proves the full displayed Weyl relation. Since , it gives , so unitarity yields .
In the stated block-matrix case the commutators on are and . Hence when . Domain invariance makes these restrictions endomorphisms of . Since is a complex vector space, pointwise addition and scalar multiplication and composition make a unital associative -algebra: composition is associative, the identity map is its unit, and -bilinearity follows by evaluating on vectors. Regard as the span of the generators and send them to and . By [F6] this extends to a unital algebra map from . The displayed commutators show that this map kills each defining relator in [F4]; its kernel is a two-sided ideal because it is an algebra homomorphism, so it contains the generated ideal by [F9]. Then [F7] factors it through ; write for this factor map. The factor is -linear because the quotient map is surjective, and evaluation on gives a unital left module by [F8]. Step 4.1 gives its eligible exponentiated realization, with the exact phase and finite-mode scope claimed. The proof uses Choice through [F1]–[F2]'s spectral/Stone construction and Countable Choice in the self-adjoint/graph supplier closure [F3]; it makes no assertion that the common-core and graph-orbit assumptions follow from algebraic relations alone.
Depends on
- Mean value inequality for a differentiable Banach-valued curve
- Stone's theorem: unitary groups and self-adjoint generators
- A self-adjoint operator generates a strongly continuous unitary group
- Symmetric, self-adjoint and essentially self-adjoint operators
- Unbounded linear operators: domain, graph and extension
- Hilbert space
- The Axiom of Choice
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
- Polynomial Weyl algebra and its central parameter
- Universal property of the tensor algebra
- A ring homomorphism whose kernel contains a two-sided ideal factors uniquely through the quotient ring
- Unital left and right modules over a ring; unqualified module means left module
- The ideal generated by a subset and principal ideals
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Sources
- Gerald Teschl, Mathematical Methods in Quantum Mechanics, second edition (standard reference, not scraped)