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Onto radial continuum transform
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The Axiom of Choice). Let , , let be the radial operator of Transported radial endpoint realization with spectral measure and form domain , and for let and be as in Coulomb continuum spectral density. Define, for in the dense subspace of compactly supported square-integrable functions, Then:
(a) and ; consequently extends uniquely to a linear contraction , where and , with for every . Its restriction is a linear isometry of the positive spectral subspace of into , satisfying and for . Equivalently, is a well-defined isometry on the dense projected core and is its unique isometric extension;
(b) is onto, hence unitary; equivalently the range of is all of and the adjoint is an isometry inverse to ;
(c) is multiplication by the independent variable on the domain , and is multiplication by for every bounded Borel function ;
(d) complete Coulomb spectral resolution. If , the operator on is unitarily equivalent to the diagonal operator with the constant on the -copy of and multiplication by on each continuum copy; equivalently there is a unitary from onto the displayed direct sum with equal to that diagonal operator, and the negative part of the spectrum is exhausted by the bound states of Negative-subspace completeness and degeneracy while the positive part is purely absolutely continuous. If , the representation is with multiplication by and no discrete copies, because the free Fourier multiplier has no nonpositive spectral projection.
The transform is a mathematical spectral representation of and ; no scattering amplitude, phase shift or physical interpretation is asserted.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , , the operator , its spectral measure , the density , the solutions , and the unitary of Angular radial unitary reduction.
For compactly supported and every : ; the measures have no atoms in , , and in for every (Coulomb continuum spectral density, Coulomb Jost Volterra solution).
Compactly supported functions are dense in , and a bounded linear isometry defined on a dense subspace extends uniquely to the closure with the same norm (A bounded linear map from a dense normed subspace into a Banach space extends uniquely with the same norm, The space as the quotient by null functions, Hilbert space).
Under the retained public AC hypothesis, Spectral theorem for unbounded self-adjoint operators (PVM form) and Unbounded Borel functional calculus: domains, products, spectral mapping give the unique regular PVM, bounded Borel calculus, nonreal resolvent multiplier and exact operator-domain norm formula. Here , and , . Projections on disjoint spectral sets are orthogonal, bounded Borel pairings integrate mixed measures, and the restricted is self-adjoint with the exact restricted spectral domain: its nonreal resolvent is the restriction of the full multiplier resolvent, so both nonreal ranges are onto. The inner product is linear in the first argument. Resolvent of a self-adjoint operator: nonreal resolvents and the estimate supplies with norm at most . This is an honest AC-bearing prerequisite use, retaining the stated AC and CC hypotheses on the later source40 CC lemma.
A projection on commuting with all indicator multipliers is a scalar indicator multiplier, as proved locally in step 5.1. Orthogonal decomposition by a closed subspace supplies the required orthogonal projection under CC; dominated convergence and Cauchy-Schwarz are supplied by Dominated convergence and Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for .
Fix the countable family of all finite rational-complex linear combinations of indicators , with rational. Each is a compact source, and on each , , the members supported there are dense in by simple approximation and regularity. The regular solution is real for real and has locally uniform parameter bounds, including near zero, by Coulomb Jost Volterra solution. Compact positive-energy intervals have bounded continuous and bounded regular solutions on compact radial intervals. Tonelli and Fubini for the completed product, with only almost-everywhere section measurability justifies the compact double integrals below. The free Fourier multiplier and its zero-set property use Plancherel theorem and the transported endpoint realization.
Proof
[Projected norm identity on compact sources] For compactly supported , [F1] with , (or the monotone convergence of the positive measures on the increasing intervals ) gives ; the right side is finite because it is the mass of the finite measure on . This is the norm identity of (a) on the dense compact-source domain .
[Extension through the positive projection] Step 1.1 gives on compact sources, so extend first to a contraction on all . Passing to compact-source approximations yields for every , where . Thus and is an isometry, with . If for compact sources, the norm identity gives , so the induced map is well-defined and isometric. The projected core is dense in : project compact-source approximations to any vector in and use . This proves the unique-extension and factorization assertions of (a). Its range is closed because Cauchy sequences in that range pull back to Cauchy sequences in the complete positive subspace. In particular compact-source images are dense in its range, without incorrectly calling isometric on all compact sources.
[Compressed resolvents and the missing norm equality] Write , and for the orthogonal projection onto this closed range. Define : uniqueness of orthogonal decomposition gives directly , and , without invoking another representation theorem. Polarize [F1] on compact sources; the mixed measures are finite, and equality on positive intervals extends to all positive Borel sets by the interval-generated finite-measure uniqueness argument. Integration of bounded simple functions and bounded approximation then gives , where is on the positive half-line and zero elsewhere. Boundedness extends this identity from compact sources to all . Thus , initially only a compression. For , , put and . The identity gives . Pointwise , so . Setting and , self-adjointness and the linear-first convention give . The compressed pairing identifies these imaginary parts. Dividing by the nonzero real proves . Pythagoras forces . Apply this to both and , whose multipliers are adjoints: and reduce these multipliers, commutes with them, and . This is the required compression-to-reduction proof before any onto claim.
[Resolvent reduction implies indicator reduction] For and , define . Its multiplier commutes with : it is the operator-norm Riemann-integral limit of the imaginary parts of , since . One has , and these functions tend as to except at the two Lebesgue-null endpoints. Dominated convergence against for each gives strong convergence of the multipliers, so commutes with . The Borel sets whose multipliers commute with form a sigma-algebra: complements use , intersections use products, and disjoint countable unions use strongly convergent finite sums; disjointification gives arbitrary countable unions. Positive intervals generate the Borel sigma-algebra, so all Borel indicators commute with . Bounded simple approximation gives all bounded Borel multipliers; completed-measurable sets have the same multiplier as a Borel representative modulo null sets.
[The reducing projection is a scalar indicator] Set in , and using measurable representatives. Commutation gives for bounded measurable . For every measurable , contractivity gives , hence a.e.; otherwise intersecting with a bounded positive interval gives a contradiction to this inequality. Vectors are dense: for , have that form and converge in by dominated convergence. Therefore on . Self-adjointness and idempotence force a.e., testing the multiplier identities on bounded-interval indicators. Thus for a measurable , and .
[Countable compact tests eliminate the complement] For the explicit family of [F5], each lies in and vanishes a.e. on . Remove the union of the countably many exceptional null sets. For every remaining , positivity of gives for every . On each , , this is a continuous linear functional by Cauchy-Schwarz and local square integrability of . Its vanishing on the fixed dense family implies its vanishing on all of , including . Hence . Exhausting contradicts the nonzero continuous regular solution of [F1]. The remaining part of is therefore empty, so is null, , and is unitary with isometric inverse . Only countably many conull sets were intersected. This proves (b).
[Exact bounded and unbounded diagonalization] Steps 3.1, 4.1 and 6.1 give for every positive Borel set. Linear combinations and bounded pointwise simple approximation therefore give for every bounded Borel . This uses the onto-ness of step 6.1 and does not incorrectly pair negative components through . For unbounded energy, spectral truncation and the norm formula give , so the exact generator domain is and there.
[Inverse integral and exact scope of convergence] For put and . The compact parameter bounds of [F5] and Cauchy-Schwarz give . Fubini for compact-source gives . Since and , the left side also equals . All compact-source tests therefore identify locally a.e. with , so represents a global element of . Finally in and is an isometry, giving in . This explicitly realizes the inverse without asserting pointwise convergence at infinity. If compact source means bounded support that may approach zero, cutting it off below and using the regular bound of [F5] extends all compact-energy integral identities by Cauchy-Schwarz and continuity.
[Complete resolution of ] By the block identity of Transported radial endpoint realization and the angular unitary of Angular radial unitary reduction, is unitarily equivalent to the direct sum over of the operators , and by the previous items is unitarily equivalent to on together with the discrete eigenvalues , , each simple, whose eigenspaces are spanned by the transported regular solutions (Negative-subspace completeness and degeneracy, Laguerre bound energy exhaustion); the essential spectrum is and the positive spectrum is purely absolutely continuous by Coulomb continuum spectral density. The absence of a zero eigenvector follows from Coulomb continuum spectral density. For , PVM transport from [F3] through the angular unitary and the exact block identity shows that the normalized global negative eigenfamily restricts to a complete radial negative family in each channel; otherwise placing a missing radial vector in one channel contradicts global completeness. Thus each radial unitary sends to , with inverse the bound-family sum plus step 7.2. Assembling these unitaries in the fixed countable channel order gives the stated onto unitary , since orthogonal norm sums give convergence and surjectivity. The exact block domain and step 7.1 identify its diagonal domain with square summability of all energy-multiplied discrete and continuum coordinates. For , use the transported free operator: its explicit Fourier multiplier has zero projection on , since is null. PVM uniqueness and unitary transport in [F3] give , so every individual nonpositive block projection is zero. Each free radial block is consequently wholly positive, and the same positive transforms assemble a continuum-only unitary. No zero-energy bound copies are introduced.
[Conclusion] Clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) are steps 1.1 and 2.1; 3.1 through 6.1; 7.1; and 8.1. Step 7.2 explicitly realizes the isometric adjoint inverse.
Depends on
Spectral theorem for unbounded self-adjoint operators (PVM form)
Unbounded Borel functional calculus: domains, products, spectral mapping
Orthogonal decomposition by a closed subspace
Resolvent of a self-adjoint operator: nonreal resolvents and the estimate
Tonelli and Fubini for the completed product, with only almost-everywhere section measurability
Plancherel theorem
Coulomb continuum spectral density
Laguerre bound energy exhaustion
Coulomb Jost Volterra solution
Negative-subspace completeness and degeneracy
Transported radial endpoint realization
Angular radial unitary reduction
Coulomb essential spectrum
Projection valued measure
Discrete and essential spectrum of a self-adjoint operator
Orthonormal families, complete orthonormal systems and Hilbert bases
Parseval equivalences for an orthonormal family
A bounded linear map from a dense normed subspace into a Banach space extends uniquely with the same norm
Dominated convergence
Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for
Hilbert space
The space as the quotient by null functions
Complex Lp classes and Euclidean test-function conventions
Symmetric, self-adjoint and essentially self-adjoint operators
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
The Axiom of Choice
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Sources
- G. Teschl, Mathematical Methods in Quantum Mechanics, 1st edition 2009, Section 9.3 pp. 195-202 (spectral transformations I: construction of the direct and inverse transforms) and Section 9.6 pp. 209-214 (spectral transformations II)
- Theo Buehler and Dietmar A. Salamon, Functional Analysis (ETH lecture notes, 2017), Section 5.6-5.7 pp. 273-298 (spectral measures and cyclic vectors) and Chapter 6 pp. 305-333 (unbounded operators on Hilbert spaces)