Abstract
The Hamiltonian of Reggeon field theory is defined by , where A and are the annihilation and creation operators satisfying and , are real parameters, and . This operator acts on Bargmann space where is a Hilbert space of holomorphic square integrable functions with respect to the Gaussian-weighted Lebesgue measure. In this work, we consider the operator with maximum domain . If we limit the domain to polynomials and take the closure of the obtained operator, we denote it by of which is obviously an extension. Contrary to what happens for , it is well known that these two operators are different. The main purpose of the present work is to show that admits a right-inverse , i.e., on negative imaginary axis and that is compact.
MSC:
47A05; 47A45; 47B36; 47B37; 47B93
1. Introduction
We recall that the Hamiltonian of Reggeon Field Theory is defined by
where A and are the annihilation and creation operators, and are real parameters, and .
This operator is considered to act on Bargmann space [1]:
where its usual basis is given by
or
and the annihilation operator A and creation operator are defined by
Action of A and on usual basis are given, respectively, by
Remark 1
(Some Specific Properties on Bargmann’s Space).
- -
- In [1] it is well known that is related to by an unitary transform (called Bargmann transform) of onto , given by the following transform
- -
- In [2], I established several properties on Bargmann space:
- (a)
- is related to by an unitary transform of onto , given by the following transform:where
- (b)
- Lemmas 1 and 2 and in particular Lemma 3 link a function of the Bargmann space with its derivative. This lemma plays a fundamental role in the study of the Hamiltonian of reggeon field theory:
Lemma 1
(Lemma 0.3 [2]).
In Bargmann space, we have
The expressions of and are given, respectively, by
- In [2], we have given a complete spectral analysis of the following -symmetric matrices which play an important role in Reggeon field theorywhere , are real parameters and .
In his consideration of the classical Carathéodory–Féjer problem in function theory, Takagi [3] observed the relevance of the anti-linear eigenvalue problem , where T is an symmetric complex matrix and X denotes complex conjugation of a vector X in . He noted that this equation implies that and hence that is an eigenvalue of .
According this observation, Garcia and Putnar give in [4] the following definition:
Definition 1
(Complexe-Symmetric Operators). A bounded linear operator T on a complex Hilbert space is called complex symmetric if , where C is a conjugation (an isometric, anti-linear involution) of .
Remark 2.
- (i)
- (i.e., is non-self adjoint).
- (ii)
- These -symmetric matrices approximate our unbounded operator in the sense that approximate (see [2], Theorem 2.1 page 345).
- (iii)
- It is well known that for , is invertible and has compact resolvent because its maximal domain is compactly embedded in Bargmann space (see [2]). Now for , is not inversible because its spectrum [5]. Hence it is natural to ask whether admits a left inverse or a right inverse, and if either of them exists, to see whether it is unbounded or bounded, and even better, whether it is compact.
- It is well known for several years that the eigenvalues of this operator are real and that, recently in 2023, we have shown the completeness of its generalized eigenvectors (for this topic see [6]).
Let
Then, it is well known that on , for , an explicit inverse of restricted on imaginary axis; is given (see [7], Proposition 9) by
where
By taking and , we obtain the following:
where
or by taking and (see Lemme 4 in [8])
where
The kernel of operator is analytic with respect to . The integral operator defined by this kernel extends into a compact operator on a space with weight, including for negative values of .
In particular, we have the following.
Proposition 1
(See Proposition 9 in [7,8] or Lemmas 4 and 8 in [8]).
Let with be a space of square integrable functions with respect the measure , then we have:
- (i)
- For all , can be extended to a Hilbert–Shmidt operator of to itself.
- (ii)
- The map is analytic on in Hilbert–Schmidt norm operators on .
- (iii)
- For , the smallest eigenvalue of which is simple can be extended to a real positive analytical function and is increasing with respect to μ on entire real axis.
Remark 3.
is non-normal operator; nevertheless, it has several properties analogous to those of the self-adjoint operators.
- In 1987, we have given in [7] (see also [2]) many non-trivial spectral properties of for :
- (i)
- where is the resolvent set of .
- (ii)
- where .
- (iii)
- and .
- (iv)
- For .
- (v)
- The injection of in is continuous.
- (vi)
- The injections of and of in are compact.
- (vii)
- The existence of the smallest eigenvalue and asymptotic expansion of semigroup and the elements of the diffusion matrix as .
More precisely, for , and , denote the smallest and the second eigenvalue of , respectively, then we have the following:
where and is the eigenfunction of associated to such that .
Remark 4.
- (i)
- The operator with maximal domain is formally anti-adjoint, i.e., it is equal to the opposite of its adjoint.
- (ii)
- The maximal domain of is not equal to its minimal domain.
- (iii)
- For in , the -symmetric matrices:approximate :where λ is real parameter and .
- (iv)
- is equivalent tothen is not symmetric but is -symmetric.
Remark 5.
Let , , then we have
- (i)
- and
- (ii)
In the sequel, we will consider the following integral operator:
where
The cubic term parameterized by is analogous to the Lindblad operators for describing non-unitarity in open quantum systems.
- In 1998, we have given in [9] the boundary conditions at infinity for a description of all maximal dissipative extensions in Bargmann space of the minimal Heun’s operator . The characteristic functions of the dissipative extensions were computed and some completeness theorems were obtained for the system of generalized eigenvectors. It is well known that the restriction of the closure of on the polynomials set is symmetric. But the minimal domain of is different of its maximal domain .
- It is also well known that is chaotic operator in Devaney’s sense [10] (see reference [5]. In particular its spectrum is . It follows that its action on the standard orthonormal basis in the Bargmann is given byThen can be represented in by an infinite tridiagonal matrixknown as the Jacobi–Gribov matrix.
- In 2025, we studied in [11] the deficiency numbers of the generalized operator on Bargmann space where () and we gave some conditions on the parameters p and m such that must be completely indeterminate. It follows from these conditions that is entirely of minimal type and is connected to chaotic operator.
We now describe briefly the contents of this paper, section by section.
In Section 2, according to Askey and Wilson in [12] on some hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials, we give some spectral properties associated with ; in Section 3, we give some properties of action of on the Bargmann basis where with and in Section 4, we show that has a right-inverse on negative imaginary axis and that is compact.
2. Some Spectral Properties Associated to in the Askey–Wilson Sense
Let with domain .
Now, we denote the above operator if we limit its domain to polynomials where and we denote the closure of this restriction by .
Hence is obviously an extension to this closure.
It is well known that the minimal domain of is different of its maximal domain contrary to minimal and maximal domains of which coincide for .
According to Askey and Wilson [12] on some hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials, we deduce that the above Jacobi matrix associated with is related to the set of polynomials of degree n satisfying the recurrent relation,
with the following initial conditions:
where .
Definition 2.
The polynomials , which solve to above recurrence relation and subject to the initial conditions , are called polynomials of the first kind.
The polynomials , which satisfy the above recurrence relation and are subject to the initial conditions , are called polynomials of the second kind.
Remark 6
(discrete Wronskian).
Let the spectral equation for . Then for every two solutions and of above equation with the same parameter σ, the discrete Wronskian is defined by
which is independent of n.
For the polynomials and , the wronskian is equal to one for every x. It follows that
Definition 3
(Borzov [13]).
A polynomial set is called a canonical polynomial system if it is defined by the following recurrence relations:
where the positive sequence is given.
Lemma 2.
- (i)
- The polynomial set is a canonical polynomial system.
- (ii)
- The polynomials have real coefficients and fulfill the following parity conditions
- (iii)
- (iv)
- (v)
- The operator has the deficiency indices .
Proof.
- (i)
- As the sequence is positive, then the proof of this property is trivial by taking .
- (ii)
- As the coefficients of and the coefficients of are real, then we deduce by recurrence that the polynomials have real coefficients. Now as , then if we suppose that and , then from the recurrence relationwe deduce thatandIt follows that
- (iii)
- Let then and . It follows that and . This implies thatAs holds for all , we deduce that .
- (iv)
- It is well known that the following series converges for , where is real, then as , it follows that .
- (v)
- By using theorem 1.5, Ch.VII [14].
For any operator T, we denote by , and the spectrum, the essential spectrum and the point spectrum of T, respectively. □
Proposition 2.
Let acting on Bargmann space . For all , can be defined by
Then the point spectrum of is .
Direct Proof.
This direct proof is based on the following classical proposition: □
Proposition 3.
The Bertrand series with general term converges if and only if .
Now, let us consider the sequence defined by the recurrence relation:
and let , where is defined by (38).
It is clear that .
belongs to we must prove that for all we have . For this, we will show that
where M is a constant independent of n.
To determine , we use the below relation when
which proves that the second part of the above equality is positive for .
Now, we set and we deduce (39) by recurrence. We use the following inequalities
and
It follows that
This implies that for all .
Second Proof.
The second proof is based on the following classical lemma: □
Lemma 3
(Raabe-Duhamel test).
We suppose .
If
then
- (i)
- converges
- (ii)
- diverges
Same conclusions if
and we apply Theorem 2.3 of the reference [11].
3. Some Properties of Integral Operator Action on the Bargmann Basis Where with
We recall that on , it was well known that an explicit inverse of
restricted on imaginary axis, is given by
where
It follows that
and for , let be the smallest eigenvalue of the operator , then it is well known in [8] that extends to a positive, increasing, analytic function on the whole real line and that the limit value is an eigenvalue of in particular, .
Despite the difficulty of the absence of any relation between the domains of the self-adjoint and anti-adjoint parts of , this operator has a fine spectral property in the Bargmann representation: if we restrict to an imaginary semi-axis, its inverse is an integral operator with a positive kernel, which allows us to apply the Krein–Rutman theorem [15] and the Jentzsch theorem [16].
For , let
then for , we have the following:
where denotes the first derivative of , and is its second derivative. And
Remark 7.
- It is well known that is compact if see [8] or [7]. It belongs same to the Carleman-class , for this topic see the reference [17]. A compact operator K in the Hilbert space is said to belong to the Carleman-class if converges where are the eigenvalues of compact operator .
- It is well known that for , satisfies some properties which are to far form the properties of :
- (i)
- where is the resolvent set of .
- (ii)
- .
- (iii)
- The spectrum of is .
- If is the usual basis of Bargmann space then is also an orthonormal basis of Bargmann space.
Now, if we restrict to an imaginary semi-axis, for example, , we deduce that and .
Lemma 4
(Action of on the basis ). Let then
and
i.e.,
Proof.
Let
Setting and , this implies that and .
Now we use an integration by part to obtain:
It follows that .
.
.
, i.e.,
□
Definition 4
(Right (or Left) invertibility of unbounded operators).
Let be a Hilbert space and let T be a linear operator with domain .
We say that T is right invertible if there exists an everywhere defined (the space of bounded operators on ) such that ; and we say that T is left invertible if there is an everywhere defined such that .
Remark 8
(Examples).
- (i)
- Let be the set of polynomials, and . We would like to undo differentiation, so we integrate the following:The fundamental theorem of calculus says that the derivative of this integral is p; that is, . So is a right inverse of A; it provides a solution, not the only one of the differential equation:If we try things in the other direction, there is a problem:That is, sends p to , which is not the same as p. So is not a left inverse to A; since A has a nonzero null space, we will see that no left inverse can exist.
- (ii)
- Consider the space E of real sequences, the linear mapping T that maps a sequence to the sequence and the linear mapping S that maps a sequence to the sequence . It is clear that . Now consider the sequence . We have where 0 is the sequence that vanishes identically and also hence .
- (iii)
- Consider the usual (unilateral) shift S on . Then I and S is hyponormal.Hence
- (1)
- S is left invertible without being invertible.
- (2)
- Also, where denotes the spectrum of an operator T.
Remark 9.
is a primitive of function defined by
The function has interesting properties (see [18]).
- For every non negative integer n, there exists an unique couple of polynomials that satisfyMoreover, these polynomials are defined, starting from , by the recurrence relationsand by Lemma 1 and Proposition 3 of Kouba in [19], the sequence satisfies:The polynomials are linked to the well-known physicist’s Hermite polynomials by the following relationIn [18], some similar properties of the generating function are given to study the “Plasma dispersion function widely used in the field of plasma physics”.In particular
- The n-th derivative of is given by:where and are given by the following recurrence relations:Furthermore we have the following identityand the following expression for :In following lemma, we give an explicit expression of and we show that it belongs to Bargmann space.
Lemma 5
(An explicit expression of ).
where and
Proof.
We begin by writing the following:
where and .
Let .
Setting then we have
where is Wallis formula).
It follows that
Now as then we deduce that
i.e.,
Now, we consider , as , then we deduce that
As , then it follows that
i.e.,
□
Corollary 1.
- (α)
- The function belongs to Bargmann space, i.e., and
- (β)
Remark 10.
Let , .
Then by observing that and by setting , we deduce that , and
In particular,
Below we show that to deduce the convergence of and of .
The convergence of the series requires Stirling’s approximation, and
We give two methods to prove this convergence: the first method uses Stirling’s approximation by establishing the convergence with limits, and for the second method, we use an upper bound of using the trapezoidal method and a lower bound of by the median point method.
- (i)
- First method: Establishing convergence with limitsLet and .Then,It follows that .
- (ii)
- Second method: lower bound and upper bound ofWith the upper bound of , by using the trapezoidal method, we getThis implies thatwhere is a positive constant.It follows thatWith the lower bound of , by using the median point method, we getwhere c is a positive constant.This implies thatwhere is a positive constant. AndFrom (64) and (67) we deduce the following:From (66) and (69) we deduce the following:Now from (70) and (71) we deduce the following:(Note in above denominators that is upper bound of and is lower bound of ). It follows thatNow as , then we deduce that
- (i)
- (ii)
As and then and .
Remark 11.
- (α)
- , , and
- (β)
- As then where
Corollary 2.
belongs to Bargmann space for all
Proof.
As satisfies the recurrence relation:
where belongs to Bargmann space.
Then we deduce that , this implies that , and by recurrence, we deduce that for all □
Proposition 4
(Determination explicit of with respect to and ).
Let
Then, we have
with
Proof.
and
; and
; and
: and
; and
; and .
By recurrence with respect to p, we suppose that
such that and .
such that and .
Then we deduce that
- This impliesandi.e.,
- Then we deduce thatandi.e.,
□
Lemma 6.
Let with norm and is a polynomial which satisfies:
where and
Then
- (i)
- is orthogonal to .
- (ii)
- Let then .
- (iii)
- .
Proof.
- (i)
- As the degree of is then .
- (ii)
- We haveBy using (i) and , we deduce that .
- (iii)
- is deduced from (ii) and Lemma 5.
□
4. On Right-Inverse of and Its Compactness
Proposition 5.
Let be a Hilbert space and let T be a linear operator with domain .
Let be the kernel of T and its range.
- (i)
- T is right invertible ⇔
- (ii)
- The inverse of an unbounded operator could be compact, or bounded, or unbounded, as one can easily see by considering multiplication operators on L2 spaces.
- (iii)
- The left inverse of a compact operator on an infinite dimensional Hilbert space, if it exists, must be unbounded.
Proof.
- (i)
- For : assume T is surjective. Then, for all , there exists such that . Define to be the function which maps each to such (if there is more than one , then the function R maps to one of them chosen in an arbitrary way). This excludes the possibility that R maps to two distinct values, in which case it would not be a function). It follows thatand .
- For , assume are such that . Then, for each , is a pre-image of by T, as . Hence, T is surjective.
- and are the examples satisfying (ii) and (iii) (see the following propositions).
□
Proposition 6.
- (i)
- is a right inverse of , i.e., .
- (ii)
- is surjective.
- (iii)
- is non-injective.
Proof.
- (i)
- As then we deduce that:andNow, from the following recurrence relation:we deduce thatandNow as then .And by recurrence we deduce that:.By taking the range of as domain of , It follows that:
- (ii)
- It is well known that if an operator T has a right inverse, then T is surjective (see above proposition). Then is surjective. Conversely, if T is surjective, then T has a right inverse (see above proposition or [20]).
- (iii)
- is non-injective since it cancels out the function . In fact, as and as and then .
□
Proposition 7
(Compactness of ).
Let , where and let where (see Formula (59)).
Then,
- (i)
- as (in operator norm).
- (ii)
- is compact.
Proof.
- (i)
- Let then and .Let us estimate the remainder of the series using Cauchy–Schwarz:Then, as (in operator norm).
- (ii)
- As is an operator norm limit of finite rank operators, is a compact operator.
□
Remark 12.
- (i)
- We can take the range of as domain of . This is possible because is dense in . To do this, let us take a function orthogonal to ; in particular, it is orthogonal to all . Starting with from where and we deduce the following:Since is of degree n exactly, the set of is an algebraic basis for the space of polynomials that are zero at the origin, so it is the total in then .
- (ii)
- is an imaginary part of , we observe that it is also the imaginary part of . In [21], we have presented an interesting “non-linear” factorization of this operator
5. Conclusions
Reggeon field theory (RFT) is an attempt to predict the high-energy behavior of soft processes; the RFT can be derived from the assumed softness of hadronic interactions at low transverse momenta, which seems to be well established experimentally in hadron–hadron and hadron–nucleus interactions.
Originally, RFT was formulated as a field theory (or as quantum mechanics in zero transverse dimensions) of pomerons. The basic degrees of freedom in this formulation are the Gribov fields and that create and annihilate the pomeron. The action defining the theory with triple pomeron couplings only (MRFT) is defined in the following way:
The Hamiltonian of this theory is given by acting on Bargmann space, where is intercept coupling, is the triple Pomeron coupling, and A and are the annihilation and creation operators satisfying . Many spectral properties of have been studied by the author and recalled in this work. The mathematical difficulties of this problem come of course from the non-self-adjointness of . Notice that this non-self-adjointness is a rather wild one; the word “wild” meaning here that the domains of the adjoint and anti-adjoint parts are not included in one another, nor is the domain of their commutator.
The main purpose of the present work (Section 4) is to give some new spectral properties of anti-adjoint part of , in particular, to show that admits a right-inverse , i.e., on negative imaginary axis and that is compact. This gives us an original example of an operator that admits a right inverse but does not admit a left inverse.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Data Availability Statement
No new data were created or analyzed in this study.
Conflicts of Interest
The author declares no conflicts of interest.
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