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The Fuglede-Putnam Theory

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In the beginning, why “some” applications only? The answer is pretty simple. The Fuglede theorem’s applications are abundant and cannot all be included in this survey. Recall that the most useful application is that it weakens an assumption in the spectral theorem for normal operators.

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Mortad, M.H. (2022). Some Applications. In: The Fuglede-Putnam Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2322. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17782-8_6

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