MODEL THEORY OF HILBERT SPACES EXPANDED BY NORMAL OPERATORS
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- 16 October 2026
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic
- p. 1-36
Abstract
We study expansions of Hilbert spaces with a bounded normal operator T . We axiomatize this theory in a natural language and identify all of its completions. We prove the definability of the adjoint $T^*$ upper T Superscript asterisk and prove quantifier elimination for every completion after adding $T^*$ upper T Superscript asterisk to the language. We identify types with measures on the spectrum of the operator and show that the logic topology on the type space corresponds to the weak*-topology on the space of measures. We also give a precise formula for the metric on the space of $1$ 1 -types. We prove all completions are stable and characterize the stability spectrum of the theory in terms of the spectrum of the operator. We also show all completions, regardless of their spectrum, are $\omega $ omega -stable up to perturbations.
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