In functional analysis, the Grothendieck trace theorem is an extension of Lidskii's theorem about the trace and the determinant of a certain class of nuclear operators on Banach spaces, the so-called -nuclear operators. The theorem was proven in 1955 by Alexander Grothendieck. Lidskii's theorem does not hold in general for Banach spaces.
The theorem should not be confused with the Grothendieck trace formula from algebraic geometry.
Grothendieck trace theorem
Given a Banach space with the approximation property and denote its dual as .
⅔-nuclear operators
Let be a nuclear operator on , then is a -nuclear operator if it has a decomposition of the form
where and and
Grothendieck's trace theorem
Let denote the eigenvalues of a -nuclear operator counted with their algebraic multiplicities. If
then the following equalities hold:
and for the Fredholm determinant
See also
- Nuclear operators between Banach spaces
Literature
- Gohberg, Israel; Goldberg, Seymour; Krupnik, Nahum (1991). Traces and Determinants of Linear Operators. Operator Theory Advances and Applications. Basel: Birkhäuser. p. 102. ISBN 978-3-7643-6177-8.
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