NORMS AND NORM-ATTAINABILITY OF NORMAL OPERATORS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

N B Okello

Abstract


The study of norms of operators forms a very important aspect in functional analysis, operator theory and its applications to economics, quantum chemistry and quantum computing amongst other fields.   A lot of results have  been  obtained  on  norms  of  normal  operators  particularly  by  Kitanneh,  Dragomir  and  Stacho  among others.  However,  characterizations  of  norm-attainable  operators  have  not  been  exhausted.  The  pending question that remains unanswered is: What are the necessary and sufficient conditions for normal operators to
be  norm-attainable?  Moreover,  what  are  the  norms  of  these  operators  if  the  norm-attainability  suffices? Therefore, in this paper, we  present  norms of operators in Hilbert spaces. We outline  the theory of normal, self-adjoint  and  norm-attainable  operators.  The  objectives  of  the  study  are:  To  determine  norms  of  normal operators; To establish conditions for norm-attainability of normal operators; and to investigate norms of selfadjoint norm-attainable operators. The methodology involved the use of inner products, tensor products and some known mathematical inequalities like Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and the triangle inequality. The results obtained show that normaloid  and normal  operators  are norm-attainable if there exist a unit vector  x  in the Hilbert space which is unique such that for any operator  T,T Tx . Furthermore, the operators are normattainable if they are self-adjoint. These results concur with the results of Qui Bao Gao for compact operators when the Hilbert space is taken to be infinite dimensional and complex. In conclusion, the results obtained are useful in quantum computing in generating quantum bit. In genetics the results are useful in the determination of DNA results of parents and offspring. Key words: Hilbert space, normality, norm-attainability, self-adjoint operators, tensor products

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