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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2009
One of the most important results of operator theory is the spectral theorem for normal operators. This states that a normal operator (that is, a Hilbert space operator T such that T*T= TT*), can be represented as an integral with respect to a countably additive spectral measure,
Here E is a measure that associates an orthogonal projection with each Borel subset of ℂ. The countable additivity of this measure means that if x Eℋ can be written as a sum of eigenvectors then this sum must converge unconditionally.