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A new approach to the approximation of operators in the Hilbert space of functions on a locally compact Abelian (LCA) group is developed. This approach is based on sampling the symbols of such operators. To choose the points for sampling, we use the approximations of LCA groups by finite groups, which were introduced and investigated by Gordon. In the case of the group R n, the constructed approximations include the finite-dimensional approximations of the coordinate and linear momentum operators, suggested by Schwinger. The finite-dimensional approximations of the Schrödinger operator based on Schwinger's approximations were considered by Digernes, Varadarajan, and Varadhan in Rev. Math. Phys. 6 (4) (1994), 621–648 where the convergence of eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the approximating operators to those of the Schrödinger operator was proved in the case of a positive potential increasing at infinity. Here this result is extended to the case of Schrödinger-type operators in the Hilbert space of functions on LCA groups. We consider the approximations of p-adic Schrödinger operators as an example. For the investigation of the constructed approximations, the methods of nonstandard analysis are used.
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Albeverio, S., Gordon, E.I. & Khrennikov, A.Y. Finite-Dimensional Approximations of Operators in the Hilbert Spaces of Functions on Locally Compact Abelian Groups. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 64, 33–73 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006457731833
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