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Pincus Principal Functions, Traces and Determinants

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Spectral Theory of Hyponormal Operators

Part of the book series: Operator Theory: Advances and Applications ((OT,volume 10))

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In this chapter we are going to study the trace of a mosaic—the principal function, and to introduce related trace formula and determinant formula.

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  1. For the trace and trace operator, also see Gelfand and Velenkin [1].

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  2. The Pincus principal functions are derived by Pincus [7] for nearly normal operators (see also Carey and Pincus [9], Helton and Howe [1]). For the main results of the present section, see Pincus and Xia [1].

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  3. The main results of the present section can be found in Carey and Pincus [9], Helton and Howe [1,2] and Pincus [7]. The notion of collapsing is due to Pincus.

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  4. For theorem 4.2, see Xia [6]. Pincus first considered the determinant of multiplication commutators. For theorem 4.3, see Carey and Pincus [3]. Theorem 4.4 is first published here.

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  5. There are some other articles concerned with the present chapter, such as Pincus [1–10], Carey and Pincus [1–12], Apóstol and Clancey [1], Voculescu [1], Curto, Muhly and Xia [1], and so on.

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Xia, D. (1983). Pincus Principal Functions, Traces and Determinants. In: Spectral Theory of Hyponormal Operators. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, vol 10. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5435-1_7

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