Monday, 8 June 2020

mathematical physics - Differences between symmetric, Hermitian, self-adjoint, and essentially self-adjoint operators



I am a physicist. I always heard physicists used the terminology "symmetric", "Hermitian", "self-adjoint", and "essentially self-adjoint" operators interchangeably.


Actually what is the difference between all those operators? Presumably understandable by a physicist.




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