The generalized characteristic polynomial, corresponding resolvent and their application

Abstract

We introduced previously the generalized characteristic polynomial defined by $P_C(\lambda)={\rm det}\,C(\lambda),$ where $C(\lambda)=C+{\rm diag}\big(\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_n\big)$ for $C\in {\rm Mat}(n,\mathbb C)$ and $\lambda=(\lambda_k)_{k=1}^n\in \mathbb C^n$ and gave the explicit formula for $P_C(\lambda)$. In this article we define an analogue of the resolvent $C(\lambda)^{-1}$, calculate it and the expression $(C(\lambda)^{-1}a,a)$ for $a\in \mathbb C^n$ explicitly. The obtained formulas and their variants were applied to the proof of the irreducibility of unitary representations of some infinite-dimensional groups.