Pseudo-Hermiticity for a Class of Nondiagonalizable Hamiltonians

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2002-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0207009v3

J.Math.Phys. 43 (2002) 6343-6352; Erratum-ibid. 44 (2003) 943

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Mathematical Physics

17 pages, slightly revised version, to appear in J. Math. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1514834

We give two characterization theorems for pseudo-Hermitian (possibly nondiagonalizable) Hamiltonians with a discrete spectrum that admit a block-diagonalization with finite-dimensional diagonal blocks. In particular, we prove that for such an operator H the following statements are equivalent. 1. H is pseudo-Hermitian; 2. The spectrum of H consists of real and/or complex-conjugate pairs of eigenvalues and the geometric multiplicity and the dimension of the diagonal blocks for the complex-conjugate eigenvalues are identical; 3. H is Hermitian with respect to a positive-semidefinite inner product. We further discuss the relevance of our findings for the merging of a complex-conjugate pair of eigenvalues of diagonalizable pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians in general, and the PT-symmetric Hamiltonians and the effective Hamiltonian for a certain closed FRW minisuperspace quantum cosmological model in particular.

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