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Functional Analysis Seminar

Tue, 24/04/2012
17:00 		Nicholas Young (Leeds) Functional Analysis Seminar Add to calendar L3
Resolvents and Nevanlinna representations in several variables
A theorem of R. Nevanlinna from 1922 characterizes the Cauchy transforms of finite positive measures on the real line as the functions in the Pick class that satisfy a certain growth condition on the real axis; this result is important in the spectral theory of self-adjoint operators. (The Pick class is the set of analytic functions in the upper half-plane $ \Pi $ with non-negative imaginary part). I will describe a higher-dimensional analogue of Nevanlinna's theorem. The $ n $-variable Pick class is defined to be the set of analytic functions on the polyhalfplane $ \Pi^n $ with non-negative imaginary part; we obtain four different representation formulae for functions in the $ n $-variable Pick class in terms of the “structured resolvent" of a densely defined self-adjoint operator. Structured resolvents are analytic operator-valued functions on the polyhalfplane with properties analogous to those of the familiar resolvent of a self-adjoint operator. The types of representation that a function admits are determined by the growth of the function on the imaginary polyaxis $ (i\R)^n $.
Tue, 15/05/2012
09:30 		Jan van Neerven (Delft University of Technology) Functional Analysis Seminar Add to calendar L3
The stochastic Weiss conjecture
The stochastic Weiss conjecture is the statement that for linear stochastic evolution equations governed by a linear operator $ A $ and driven by a Brownian motion, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an invariant measure can be given in terms of the operators $ \sqrt{\lambda}(\lambda-A)^{-1} $. Such a condition is presented in the special case where $ -A $ admits a bounded $ H^\infty $-calculus of angle less than $ \pi/2 $. This is joint work with Jamil Abreu and Bernhard Haak.
Tue, 15/05/2012
17:00 		Fritz Gesztesy (Missouri) Functional Analysis Seminar Add to calendar L3
A TRACE FORMULA AND STABILITY OF SQUARE ROOT DOMAINS FOR NON-SELF-ADJOINT OPERATORS
We extend the classical trace formula connecting the trace of resolvent dif- ferences of two (not necessarily self-adjoint) operators A and A0 with the logarithmic derivative of the associated perturbation determinant from the standard case, where A and A0 have comparable domains (i.e., one contains the other) to the case where their square root domains are comparable. This is done for a class of positive-type operators A, A0. We then prove an abstract result that permits to compare square root domains and apply this to the concrete case of 2nd order elliptic partial di erential operators in divergence form on bounded Lipschitz domains. This is based on various joint work with S. Hofmann, R. Nichols, and M. Zinchenko.

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