Preface |
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Overview |
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1 Spectral Theory for Hilbert Space Operators |
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1.1 Partial Isometries and Polar Decomposition |
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7 | (2) |
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1.2 Compact and Fredholm Operators |
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1.3 Fredholm Index and Abstract Index |
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19 | (15) |
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34 | (3) |
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1.5 Isometries and von Neumann-Wold Decomposition |
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37 | (6) |
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1.6 Toeplitz Operators with Continuous Symbols |
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43 | (4) |
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47 | (10) |
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2 Ext(X) as a Semigroup with Identity |
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57 | (34) |
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2.1 Essentially Normal Operators |
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57 | (3) |
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2.2 Weyl-von Neumann-Berg-Sikonia Theorem |
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60 | (6) |
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2.3 Extensions and Essentially Unitary Operators |
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66 | (4) |
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70 | (3) |
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2.5 Weakly and Strongly Equivalent Extensions |
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73 | (3) |
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2.6 Existence and Uniqueness of Trivial Class |
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76 | (6) |
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2.7 Identity Element for Ext(X) |
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82 | (4) |
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86 | (5) |
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3 Splitting and the Mayer-Vietoris Sequence |
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91 | (26) |
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91 | (3) |
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3.2 Disjoint Sum of Extensions |
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94 | (3) |
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3.3 First Splitting Lemma |
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97 | (3) |
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100 | (8) |
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3.5 Ext(.A) → Ext(X) → Ext(X/A) is Exact |
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108 | (4) |
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3.6 Mayer-Vietoris Sequence |
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112 | (2) |
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114 | (3) |
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4 Determination of Ext(X) as a Group for Planar Sets |
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117 | (30) |
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4.1 Second Splitting Lemma |
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117 | (7) |
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4.2 Projective Limits and Iterated Splitting Lemma |
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124 | (6) |
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130 | (3) |
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133 | (7) |
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4.5 BDF Theorem and Its Consequences |
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140 | (4) |
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144 | (3) |
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5 Applications to Operator Theory |
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147 | (32) |
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5.1 Bergman Operators and Surjectivity of γx |
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147 | (5) |
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5.2 Hyponormal Operators and m-Isometries |
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152 | (5) |
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5.3 Essentially Normal Circular Operators |
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157 | (2) |
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5.4 Essentially Homogeneous Operators |
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159 | (5) |
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5.5 Essentially Reductive Quotient and Submodules |
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164 | (11) |
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175 | (4) |
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179 | (14) |
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179 | (1) |
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180 | (1) |
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180 | (1) |
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Arveson's proof of "Ext(Z) is a group" |
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181 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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183 | (2) |
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185 | (2) |
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187 | (1) |
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Essentially normal tuples |
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187 | (2) |
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Essentially homogeneous tuples |
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189 | (1) |
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Arveson-Douglas conjecture |
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190 | (3) |
Appendix A Point Set Topology |
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193 | (8) |
Appendix B Linear Analysis |
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201 | (16) |
Appendix C The Spectral Theorem |
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217 | (16) |
References |
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233 | (8) |
Subject Index |
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241 | (4) |
Index of Symbols |
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