The theory of subnormal operators / John B. Conway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conway, John B., author.

Series:

Mathematical surveys and monographs ; no. 36.

Mathematical surveys and monographs, 0076-5376 ; number 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subnormal operators.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (454 p.)

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [1991]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In a certain sense, subnormal operators were introduced too soon because the theory of function algebras and rational approximation was also in its infancy and could not be properly used to examine the class of operators. The progress in the last several years grew out of applying the results of rational approximation." from the Preface. This book is the successor to the author's 1981 book on the same subject. In addition to reflecting the great strides in the development of subnormal operator theory since the first book, the present work is oriented towards rational functions rather than polynomials. Although the book is a research monograph, it has many of the traits of a textbook including exercises. The book requires background in function theory and functional analysis, but is otherwise fairly self-contained. The first few chapters cover the basics about subnormal operator theory and present a study of analytic functions on the unit disk. Other topics included are: some results on hypernormal operators, an exposition of rational approximation interspersed with applications to operator theory, a study of weak-star rational approximation, a set of results that can be termed structure theorems for subnormal operators, and a proof that analytic bounded point evaluations exist.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter I. Preliminaries""; ""Chapter II. Subnormal Operators: The Elementary Theory""; ""Chapter III. Function Theory On The Unit Circle""; ""Chapter IV. Hyponormal Operators""; ""Chapter V. Uniform Rational Approximation""; ""Chapter VI. Weak-Star Rational Approximation""; ""Chapter VII. Some Structure Theory For Subnormal Operators""; ""Chapter VIII. Bounded Point Evaluations""; ""Epilogue""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""

""V""""W""; ""List of symbols""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-429) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4704-1263-2