Aspects Of Positivity In Functional Analysis

Download or read book Aspects of Positivity in Functional Analysis written by R. Nagel and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions collected in this volume exhibit the increasingly wide spectrum of applications of abstract order theory in analysis and show the possibilities of order-theoretical argumentation. The following areas are discussed: potential theory, partial differential operators of second order, Schrodinger operators, theory of convexity, one-parameter semigroups, Lie algebras, Markov processes, operator-algebras, noncommutative integration and geometry of Banach spaces.