Rigged Hilbert Spaces associated with Misra-Prigogine-Courbage Theory of Irreversibility

Abstract

It is proved that, in the Misra-Prigogine-Courbage Theory of Irreversibility using the Internal Time superoperator, fixing its associated non-unitary transformation $\Lambda$, amounts to rigging the corresponding Hilbert-Liouville space. More precisely, it is demonstrated that any $\Lambda$ determinates three canonical riggings of the Liouville space $\QTR{cal}{L}$: a first one with a Hilbert space with a norm greater than the relative one from $\QTR{cal}{L}$; a second one with a $\sigma$-Hilbertian space, which is a Köthe space if $\Lambda$ is compact and is a nuclear space if $\Lambda$ has certain nuclear properties; and finally a third one with a smaller $\sigma$-Hilbertian space with a still stronger topology which is nuclear if ${\Lambda }^n$ is Hilbert-Schmidt, for some positive integer n. Viceversa: any rigging of this type, originated in a dynamical system having an Internal Time superoperator, defines a $\Lambda$ in a canonical way.

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