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1: 1.18 Linear Second Order Differential Operators and Eigenfunction Expansions
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Self-Adjoint and Symmetric Operators
… ►Formally Self-Adjoint and Self-Adjoint Differential Operators: Self-Adjoint Extensions
… ►§1.18(iv) Formally Self-adjoint Linear Second Order Differential Operators
… ► … ►Consider formally self-adjoint operators of the form …2: 1.3 Determinants, Linear Operators, and Spectral Expansions
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Formal Calculation of Determinants
… ►Self-Adjoint Operators on
… ►Real symmetric () and Hermitian () matrices are self-adjoint operators on . The spectrum of such self-adjoint operators consists of their eigenvalues, , and all . … ►For self-adjoint and , if , see (1.2.66), simultaneous eigenvectors of and always exist. …3: 30.2 Differential Equations
§30.2 Differential Equations
►§30.2(i) Spheroidal Differential Equation
… ► … ►The Liouville normal form of equation (30.2.1) is … ►§30.2(iii) Special Cases
…4: 15.10 Hypergeometric Differential Equation
§15.10 Hypergeometric Differential Equation
►§15.10(i) Fundamental Solutions
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15.10.1
►This is the hypergeometric differential equation.
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5: 18.36 Miscellaneous Polynomials
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►Classes of such polynomials have been found that generalize the classical OP’s in the sense that they satisfy second order matrix differential equations with coefficients independent of the degree.
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►These results are proven in Everitt et al. (2004), via construction of a self-adjoint Sturm–Liouville operator which generates the polynomials, self-adjointness implying both orthogonality and completeness.
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18.36.6
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►Completeness follows from the self-adjointness of , Everitt (2008).
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►Completeness and orthogonality follow from the self-adjointness of the corresponding Schrödinger operator, Gómez-Ullate and Milson (2014), Marquette and Quesne (2013).
6: 12.15 Generalized Parabolic Cylinder Functions
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►This equation arises in the study of non-self-adjoint elliptic boundary-value problems involving an indefinite weight function.
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7: 18.39 Applications in the Physical Sciences
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►The nature of, and notations and common vocabulary for, the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of self-adjoint second order differential operators is overviewed in §1.18.
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►The fundamental quantum Schrödinger operator, also called the Hamiltonian, , is a second order differential operator of the form
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►If is an arbitrary unit normalized function in the domain of then, by self-adjointness,
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►noting that the are real, follows from the fact that the Schrödinger operator of (18.39.28) is self-adjoint, or from the direct derivation of Dunkl (2003).
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►With the functions normalized as with measure are, formally,
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8: Bibliography R
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Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics, Vol. 2, Fourier Analysis, Self-Adjointness.
Academic Press, New York.
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Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics, Vol. 4, Analysis of Operators.
Academic Press, New York.
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On the computation of Lamé functions, of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of some potential operators.
Z. Angew. Math. Mech. 78 (1), pp. 66–72.
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On the foundations of combinatorial theory. VIII. Finite operator calculus.
J. Math. Anal. Appl. 42, pp. 684–760.
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On Simple Waves with Profiles in the form of some Special Functions—Chebyshev-Hermite, Mathieu, Whittaker—in Two-phase Media.
In Differential Operators and Related Topics, Vol. I (Odessa,
1997),
Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, Vol. 117, pp. 313–322.
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9: 10.22 Integrals
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10.22.9
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►Sufficient conditions for the validity of (10.22.77) are that when , or that and when ; see Titchmarsh (1986a, Theorem 135, Chapter 8) and Akhiezer (1988, p. 62).
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►These are examples of the self-adjoint extensions and the Weyl alternatives of §1.18(ix).
…A sufficient condition for the validity is .
…Sufficient conditions for the validity of (10.22.79) are that when , or that and when ; see Titchmarsh (1962a, pp. 88–90).
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10: 25.17 Physical Applications
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►This relates to a suggestion of Hilbert and Pólya that the zeros are eigenvalues of some operator, and the Riemann hypothesis is true if that operator is Hermitian.
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►Quantum field theory often encounters formally divergent sums that need to be evaluated by a process of regularization: for example, the energy of the electromagnetic vacuum in a confined space (Casimir–Polder effect).
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