Every bounded sequence in a Hilbert space has a weakly convergent subsequence. The closed span of a sequence is separable; diagonal convergence of coordinates along an orthonormal basis gives a bounded limiting linear functional, represented by a vector of the Hilbert space. Applied to a bounded family of mollifications, this proves that their strong Lebesgue limit inherits the weak derivative bound.
For with integral one, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality makes the mass functional bounded on the weighted Hilbert space. The vector has norm one, so the velocity-reset projection is the orthogonal projection onto its span. Consequently is bounded and self-adjoint. This Hilbert geometry differs from the norm-one positive reset projection on phase-space .
If is bounded and self-adjoint on a complex Hilbert space and is compact and self-adjoint, then
A singular Weyl sequence for stays singular for , because compact operators send weak convergence to norm convergence and therefore . Applying the same argument with proves the reverse inclusion. Finite-multiplicity isolated eigenvalues can move under such perturbations; the essential spectrum of a bounded self-adjoint operator is unchanged.
Weyl-von Neumann theorem 2026-10-14
Every self-adjoint operator on a separable complex Hilbert space is diagonal modulo a compact operator. For a bounded operator the compact self-adjoint error can have arbitrarily small Hilbert-Schmidt norm. In a cyclic spectral representation, partition a bounded real interval into intervals of width at most and successively bisect. Orthogonal step-function differences give basis vectors supported in the parent intervals. A diagonal value chosen in each support interval gives total squared column error at most . Since , this tends to zero. Apply the construction to countably many cyclic summands with summable squared error bounds. For an unbounded operator first split into bounded spectral intervals, obtaining a bounded compact error on the same domain.
White-noise likelihood for a square-integrable shift Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-06
Generalized Gaussian white noise over a real Hilbert space is an isonormal Gaussian process with covariance . Its law is carried on a larger observation space; the identity is not the covariance of an infinite-dimensional -valued Gaussian measure because it is not a trace-class operator. A deterministic signal defines a translated observation law with Radon-Nikodym derivative
In an orthonormal basis, is a stochastic series with total variance , not an inner product of two -valued observations. The formula follows from the Cameron-Martin theorem for a Gaussian measure in its generalized white-noise version, or from finite-dimensional Gaussian likelihood ratios. On , generalized noise can be realized on tempered distributions; an unweighted global negative Sobolev space is not automatically a suitable almost-sure support on an unbounded domain. The stochastic series avoids imposing that unsupported regularity.
For the gradient superpotential Hamiltonian in supersymmetric quantum mechanics, . A zero-energy normalizable wavefunction therefore satisfies for every , because its energy is . Equivalently , so on a connected configuration space . It exists in the Hilbert space precisely when is square-integrable. In three dimensions with radial , this requires . The sign depends on the convention ; the filled sector instead has the possible zero mode .