In this paper we study hermitian kernels invariant under the action of a semigroup with involution. We characterize those hermitian kernels which realize the given action by bounded operators on a Krein space. Applications to the GNS representation of *-algebras associated to hermitian functionals are given. We explain the key role played by the Kolmogorov decomposition in the construction of Weyl exponentials associated to an indefinite inner product and in the dilation thoery of hermitian maps on C*-algebras.
We study unitary representations of groups in Krein spaces, irreducibility criteria and integral decompositions. Our main tool is the theory of Krein subspaces and their (reproducing) kernels and a variant of Choquet's theorem.
The purpose of this paper is to propose a definition of continuous frames of rank n for Krein spaces and to study their basic properties. Similarly to the Hilbert space case, continuous frames are characterized by the analysis, the pre-frame and the frame operator, where the latter gives rise to a frame decomposition theorem. The paper includes a discussion of similar, dual and Parseval frames and of reproducing kernels. In addition, the importance of the fundamental symmetry in the formula for the frame operator in a Krein space is clarified. As prime examples, it is shown how to transfer con…
In this work we treat realization results for operator-valued functions which are analytic in the complex sense or slice hyperholomorphic over the quaternions. In the complex setting, we prove a realization theorem for an operator-valued function analytic in a neighborhood of the origin with a coisometric state space operator thus generalizing an analogous result in the unitary case. A main difference with previous works is the use of reproducing kernel Krein spaces. We then prove the counterpart of this result in the quaternionic setting. The present work is the first paper which presents a r…
We characterize those generating functions k that produce weighted Hardy spaces of the unit disk D supporting nontrivial Hermitian weighted composition operators. Our characterization shows that the spaces associated with the "classical reproducing kernels," as well as certain natural extensions of these spaces, are precisely those that are hospitable to Hermitian weighted composition operators. It also leads to a refinement of a necessary condition for a weighted composition to be Hermitian, obtained recently by Cowen, Gunatillake, and Ko, into one that is both necessary and sufficient.
The geometry of spaces with indefinite inner product, known also as Krein spaces, is a basic tool for developing Operator Theory therein. In the present paper we establish a link between this geometry and the algebraic theory of *-semigroups. It goes via the positive definite functions and related to them reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Our concern is in describing properties of elements of the semigroup which determine shift operators which serve as Pontryagin fundamental symmetries
We provide a mathematical framework for PT-symmetric quantum theory, which is applicable irrespective of whether a system is defined on R or a complex contour, whether PT symmetry is unbroken, and so on. The linear space in which PT-symmetric quantum theory is naturally defined is a Krein space constructed by introducing an indefinite metric into a Hilbert space composed of square integrable complex functions in a complex contour. We show that in this Krein space every PT-symmetric operator is P-Hermitian if and only if it has transposition symmetry as well, from which the characteristic prope…
In our previous work, we proposed a mathematical framework for PT-symmetric quantum theory, and in particular constructed a Krein space in which PT-symmetric operators would naturally act. In this work, we explore and discuss various general consequences and aspects of the theory defined in the Krein space, not only spectral property and PT symmetry breaking but also several issues, crucial for the theory to be physically acceptable, such as time evolution of state vectors, probability interpretation, uncertainty relation, classical-quantum correspondence, completeness, existence of a basis, a…
In this paper the realization problems for the Krein-Langer class $N_κ$ of matrix-valued functions are being considered. We found the criterion when a given matrix-valued function from the class $N_κ$ can be realized as linear-fractional transformation of the transfer function of canonical conservative system of the M. Livsic type (Brodskii-Livsic rigged operator colligation) with the main operator acting on a rigged Pontryagin space $\Pk$ with indefinite metric. We specify three subclasses of the class $N_κ(R)$ of all realizable matrix-valued functions that correspond to different properties …
Contractive selfadjoint extensions of a Hermitian contraction $B$ in a Hilbert space ${\mathfrak H}$ with an exit in some larger Hilbert space ${\mathfrak H}\oplus{\mathcal H}$ are investigated. This leads to a new geometric approach for characterizing analytic properties of holomorphic operator-valued functions of Kreĭn-Ovcharenko type, a class of functions whose study has been recently initiated by the authors. Compressed resolvents of such exit space extensions are also investigated leading to some new connections to transfer functions of passive discrete-time systems and related classes of…
Given a self-adjoint operator $A:D(A)\subseteq\calH\to\calH$ and a continuous linear operator $τ:D(A)\to\X$ with Range$ τ'\cap\calH' ={0}$, $\X$ a Banach space, we explicitly construct a family $A^τ_Θ$ of self-adjoint operators such that any $A^τ_Θ$ coincides with the original $A$ on the kernel of $τ$. Such a family is obtained by giving a Kre\uın-like formula where the role of the deficiency spaces is played by the dual pair $(\X,\X')$; the parameter $Θ$ belongs to the space of symmetric operators from $\X'$ to $\X$. When $\X=\C$ one recovers the ``$\calH_{-2}$ -construction'' of Kiselev and …
We reconstruct the whole family of self-adjoint Hamiltonians of Ter-Martirosyan-- Skornyakov type for a system of two identical fermions coupled with a third particle of different nature through an interaction of zero range. We proceed through an operator-theoretic approach based on the self-adjoint extension theory of Krein, Visik, and Birman. We identify the explicit Krein-Visik-Birman extension parameter as an operator on the "space of charges" for this model (the "Krein space") and we come to formulate a sharp conjecture on the dimensionality of its kernel. Based on our conjecture, for whi…
We study two extension problems, and their interconnections: (i) extension of positive definite (p.d.) continuous functions defined on subsets in locally compact groups $G$; and (ii) (in case of Lie groups $G$) representations of the associated Lie algebras $La\left(G\right)$, i.e., representations of $La\left(G\right)$ by unbounded skew-Hermitian operators acting in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space $\mathscr{H}_{F}$ (RKHS). Our analysis is non-trivial even if $G=\mathbb{R}^{n}$, and even if $n=1$. If $G=\mathbb{R}^{n}$, (ii), we are concerned with finding systems of strongly commuting selfa…
In this paper we are discussing various aspects of wavelet filters. While there are earlier studies of these filters as matrix valued functions in wavelets, in signal processing, and in systems, we here expand the framework. Motivated by applications, and by bringing to bear tools from reproducing kernel theory, we point out the role of non-positive definite Hermitian inner products (negative squares), for example Krein spaces, in the study of stability questions. We focus on the non-rational case, and establish new connections with the theory of generalized Schur functions and their associate…
We study Palm measures of determinantal point processes with $J$-Hermitian correlation kernels. A point process $\mathbb{P}$ on the punctured real line $\mathbb{R}^* = \mathbb{R}_{+} \sqcup \mathbb{R}_{-}$ is said to be $\textit{balanced rigid}$ if for any precompact subset $B\subset \mathbb{R}^*$, the $\textit{difference}$ between the numbers of particles of a configuration inside $B\cap \mathbb{R}_{+}$ and $B\cap \mathbb{R}_{-}$ is almost surely determined by the configuration outside $B$. The point process $\mathbb{P}$ is said to have the $\textit{balanced Palm equivalence property}$ if any…
