Spectral measure of a Koopman observable

ID: spectral-measure-of-a-koopman-observable

The finite positive measure representing an observable's autocorrelation sequence by the Bochner–Herglotz theorem. For a probability measure-preserving system, the Koopman operator is an isometry, so its forward autocorrelations, extended by complex conjugation to negative indices, form a positive-definite function on . The measure has mass , and its atoms are squared norms of projections onto Koopman operator eigenspaces, including for noninvertible transformations.

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