Journal of Operator Theory

Volume 78, Issue 2, Fall 2017 pp. 247-279.

Exhaustive families of representations and spectra of pseudodifferential operators

Authors: Victor Nistor

$1$ and Nicolas Prudhon

$2$
Author institution:

$1$ Departement de Mathematiques, Universite de Lorraine, UFR MIM, Ile du Saulcy, 57045 METZ, France and Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, P.O. BOX 1-764, 014700 Bucharest, Romania

$2$ Departement de Mathematiques, Universite de Lorraine, UFR MIM, Ile du Saulcy, 57045 METZ, France

Summary: A family of representations

$\mathcal F$ of a

$C^{\ast}$ -algebra

$A$ is \textit{exhaustive} if every irreducible representation of

$A$ is weakly contained in some

$\phi \in \mathcal F$ . Such an

$\mathcal F$ has the property that "

$a \in A$ is invertible if and only if

$\phi(a)$ is invertible for any

$\phi \in \mathcal F$ ". The regular representations of amenable, second countable, locally compact groupoids form an exhaustive family of representations. If

$A$ is a separable

$C^{\ast}$ -algebra, a family

$\mathcal F$ of representations of

$A$ is exhaustive if and only if it is strictly spectral. We consider also unbounded operators. A typical application is to parametric pseudodifferential operators.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7900/jot.2016jul26.2121
Keywords: operator spectrum, essential spectrum,

$C^*$ -algebra, representations of

$C^*$ -algebra, self-adjoint operator, pseudodifferential operator, Cayley transform

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