Selfadjoint Operators and Generalized Central Algorithms in Frechet Spaces

Abstract

Abstract The paper gives an extension of the fundamental principles of selfadjoint operators in Fréchet–Hilbert spaces, countable-Hilbert and nuclear Fréchet spaces. Generalizations of the well known theorems of von Neumann, Hellinger–Toeplitz, Friedrichs and Ritz are obtained. Definitions of generalized central and generalized spline algorithms are given. The restriction 𝐴∞ of a selfadjoint operator 𝐴 defined on a dense set 𝐷(𝐴) of the Hilbert space 𝐻 to the Frechet space 𝐷(𝐴∞) is substantiated. The extended Ritz method is used for obtaining an approximate solution of the equation 𝐴∞𝑢 = 𝑓 in the Frechet space 𝐷(𝐴∞). It is proved that approximate solutions of this equation constructed by the extended Ritz method do not depend on the number of norms that generate the topology of the space 𝐷(𝐴∞). Hence this approximate method is both a generalized central and generalized spline algorithm. Examples of selfadjoint and positive definite elliptic differential operators satisfying the above conditions are given. The validity of theoretical results in the case of a harmonic oscillator operator is confirmed by numerical calculations.