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Lower semicontinuhy of positive quadratic forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Barry Simon
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Yeshiva University, New York

Synopsis

We develop various facets of the theory of quadratic forms on a Hilbert space suggested by a criterion of Kato which characterizes closed forms in terms of lower semicontinuity.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1978

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