MTH-921 – Operator Theory

Course Materials

Syllabus

Schedule

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The main text for the course is:

• • B. Simon, Operator Theory: A Comprehensive Course in Analysis, Part 4, AMS (2015) (Online through MSU Library)

Additional topics may be taken from the following texts, all of which are quite useful references:

• • P. Lax, Functional Analysis, Wiley (2002)

  • O. Bratelli and D. Robinson, Operator Algebras and Quantum Statistical Mechanics 1, Springer (1987) (Online through MSU Library)

  • M. Reed and B. Simon, Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics, Volume 2: Fourier Analysis, Self-Adjointness, Academic Press (1975)

  • M. Reed and B. Simon, Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics, Volume 4: Analysis of Operators, Academic Press (1978)

  • T. Kato, Perturbation Theory for Linear Operators, Springer (1995) (Online through MSU Library)