Fredholm determinant of an exponential commutator
ID: fredholm-determinant-of-an-exponential-commutator
For bounded operators with trace-class commutator, the multiplicative commutator differs from identity by a trace-class operator. Along , the trace of its logarithmic derivative is the constant . This follows by writing as the integral of conjugates of and using trace invariance under bounded similarities. Integrating the Fredholm determinant derivative from proves the formula. Individual traces of and need not exist.
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