Skew-adjoint linear relatioins between Banach spaces
Hanchen Li, Chaofeng Zhu
TL;DR
This work extends the theory of skew-adjoint and selfadjoint linear relations from Hilbert spaces to Banach spaces by developing a robust symplectic Banach framework. It establishes stability theorems for maximal isotropic subspaces under perturbations of the symplectic form, including Morse-index perturbations and relative bounded perturbations, with simplifications in the strong symplectic setting. It then analyzes real Banach-space skew-adjoint Fredholm relations of index $0$, proving a mod $2$ stability result for the kernel and describing the exact two path components of the relation space, using a real–complex correspondence and Witt-type decompositions. Collectively, these results generalize known Hilbert-space phenomena (e.g., CCGP23, Hess–Kato) to the Banach setting and provide a foundation for oriented flow constructions and topological classifications of skew-adjoint relations in Banach spaces.
Abstract
In this paper, we prove the stability theorems for the isotropic perturbations of maximal isotropic subspaces in symplectic Banach spaces. Then we prove a stability theorem for the mod $2$ dimensions of kernel of skew-adjoint linear Fredholm relations between real Banach spaces with index $0$. Finally we gives the two path components of the set of skew-adjoint linear Fredholm relations between real Banach spaces with indices $0$.
