Santiago gonzalez Zerbo

Krein-Šmul'jan Theorem Revisited

We present a generalization of Krein-Šmul'jan theorem which involves several operators. Given bounded selfadjoint operators $A,B_1,\ldots,B_m$ acting on a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$, we provide sufficient conditions to determine whether there are $λ_1,\ldots,λ_m\in \mathbb{R}$ such that $A + \sum_{i=1}^m λ_i B_i$ is a positive semidefinite operator.