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Publications and source records attributed to Steffen Roch.
A power partial isometry (PPI) is an element $v$ of a $C^*$-algebra with the property that every power $v^n$ is a partial isometry. The goal of this paper is to identify the universal $C^*$-algebra generated by a PPI with (a slight modification of) the algebra of the finite sections method for Toeplitz operators with continuous generating function, as first described by Albrecht Böttcher and Bernd Silbermann in 1983.
Every bounded linear operator on a Hilbert space which is invertible modulo compact operators has a closed range and is, thus, generalized invertible. We consider the analogue question in general $C^*$-algebras and describe the closed ideals (called Moore-Penrose ideals in what follows) with the property that whenever an element is invertible modulo that ideal, then it is generalized invertible. In particular, we will see that the class of Moore-Penrose ideals coincides with the class of the dual ideals. Finally, we study some questions related with the projection lifting property of Moore-Penrose ideals.
We describe the $C^*$-algebra associated with the finite sections discretization of truncated Toeplitz operators on the model space $K^2_u$ where $u$ is an infinite Blaschke product. As consequences, we get a stability criterion for the finite sections discretization and results on spectral and pseudospectral approximation.
We consider Toeplitz and Hankel operators with piecewise continuous generating functions on $l^p$-spaces and the Banach algebra generated by them. The goal of this paper is to provide a transparent symbol calculus for the Fredholm property and a handy formula for the Fredholm index for operators in this algebra.
These are the lecture notes for a course at the Summer School on "Applied Analysis" at the Technical University Chemnitz in September 2011. We start with the definition of a fractal algebra and show that the fractal property is enormously useful for several spectral approximation problems, e.g. for the convergence of spectra. These results will be illustrated by sequences in the algebra of the finite sections method for Toeplitz operators. Then we discuss some structural consequences of fractality, which are related with the notion of a compact sequence. Discretized Cuntz algebras will show that idea of fractality is also a very helpful guide in order to analyze concrete algebras of approximation sequences, which illustrates the importance of the idea of {\em fractal restriction}. Our final example is the algebra of the finite sections method for band operators. This algebra is not fractal, but has a related property which we call {\em essential fractality} and which is related with the approximation of points in the essential spectrum.
The notions of fractal and essentially fractal algebras of approximation sequences and of the Arveson dichotomy have proved extremely useful for several spectral approximation problems. The purpose of this short note is threefold: to present a short new proof of the fractal restriction theorem, to relate essential fractality with Arveson dichotomy, and to derive a restriction theorem for essential fractality.
The main aim of the paper is Fredholm properties of a class of bounded linear operators acting on weighted Lebesgue spaces on an infinite metric graph $Γ$ which is periodic with respect to the action of the group ${\mathbb Z}^n$. The operators under consideration are distinguished by their local behavior: they act as (Fourier) pseudodifferential operators in the class $OPS^0$ on every open edge of the graph, and they can be represented as a matrix Mellin pseudodifferential operator on a neighborhood of every vertex of $Γ$. We apply these results to study the Fredholm property of a class of singular integral operators and of certain locally compact operators on graphs.
This article is about a problem in the numerical analysis of random operators. We study a version of the finite section method for the approximate solution of equations $Ax=b$ in infinitely many variables, where $A$ is a random Jacobi operator. In other words, we approximately solve infinite second order difference equations with stochastic coefficients by reducing the infinite volume case to the (large) finite volume case via a particular truncation technique. For most of the paper we consider non-selfadjoint operators $A$ but we also comment on the self-adjoint case when simplifications occur.
In this article we compare the set of integer points in the homothetic copy $n\Pi$ of a lattice polytope $\Pi\subseteq\R^d$ with the set of all sums $x_1+\cdots+x_n$ with $x_1,...,x_n\in \Pi\cap\Z^d$ and $n\in\N$. We give conditions on the polytope $\Pi$ under which these two sets coincide and we discuss two notions of boundary for subsets of $\Z^d$ or, more generally, subsets of a finitely generated discrete group.
We consider spatial discretizations by the finite section method of the restricted group algebra of a finitely generated discrete group, which is represented as a concrete operator algebra via its left-regular representation. Special emphasis is paid to the quasicommutator ideal of the algebra generated by the finite sections sequences and to the stability of sequences in that algebra. For both problems, the sequence of the discrete boundaries plays an essential role. Finally, for commutative groups and for free non-commutative groups, the algebras of the finite sections sequences are shown to be fractal.
This paper is devoted to estimates of the exponential decay of eigenfunctions of difference operators on the lattice Z^n which are discrete analogs of the Schrödinger, Dirac and square-root Klein-Gordon operators. Our investigation of the essential spectra and the exponential decay of eigenfunctions of the discrete spectra is based on the calculus of so-called pseudodifference operators (i.e., pseudodifferential operators on the group Z^n) with analytic symbols and on the limit operators method. We obtain a description of the location of the essential spectra and estimates of the eigenfunctions of the discrete spectra of the main lattice operators of quantum mechanics, namely: matrix Schrödinger operators on Z^n, Dirac operators on Z^3, and square root Klein-Gordon operators on Z^n.
The (abstract) Cuntz algebra is generated by non-unitary isometries and has therefore no intrinsic finiteness properties. To approximate the elements of the Cuntz algebra by finite-dimensional objects, we thus consider a spatial discretization of this algebra by the finite sections method. For we represent the Cuntz algebra as a (concrete) algebra of operators on a Hilbert space and associate with each operator in this algebra the sequence of its finite sections. The goal of this paper is to examine the structure of the $C^*$-algebra which is generated by all sequences of this form. Our main results are the fractality of a suitable restriction of this sequence algebra and a necessary and sufficient criterion for the stability of sequences in the restricted algebra. These results are employed to study spectral and pseudospectral approximations of elements of the Cuntz algebra.
The classical Szegö theorems study the asymptotic behaviour of the determinants of the finite sections $P_n T(a) P_n$ of Toeplitz operators, i.e., of operators which have constant entries along each diagonal. We generalize these results to operators which have almost periodic functions on their diagonals.
The paper is devoted to the study of the essential spectrum of discrete Schrödinger operators on the lattice $\mathbb{Z}^{N}$ by means of the limit operators method. This method has been applied by one of the authors to describe the essential spectrum of (continuous) electromagnetic Schrödinger operators, square-root Klein-Gordon operators, and Dirac operators under quite weak assumptions on the behavior of the magnetic and electric potential at infinity. The present paper is aimed to illustrate the applicability and efficiency of the limit operators method to discrete problems as well. We consider the following classes of the discrete Schrödinger operators: 1) operators with slowly oscillating at infinity potentials, 2) operators with periodic and semi-periodic potentials; 3) Schrödinger operators which are discrete quantum analogs of the acoustic propagators for waveguides; 4) operators with potentials having an infinite set of discontinuities; and 5) three-particle Schrödinger operators which describe the motion of two particles around a heavy nuclei on the lattice $\mathbb{Z}^3$.
We establish a necessary and sufficient criterion for the Fredholmness of a general locally compact band-dominated operator $A$ on $L^p(R)$ and solve the long-standing problem of computing its Fredholm index in terms of the limit operators of $A$. The results are applied to operators of convolution type with almost periodic symbol.