Construction of rigged Hilbert spaces to describe resonances and virtual states (Q1079793)

In the present communication we present a mathematical formalism for the description of resonances and virtual states. We start by constructing rigged Hilbert spaces of Hardy class functions restricted to the positive half of the real line. Then resonances and virtual states can be written as generalized eigenvectors of the total Hamiltonian. We also define time evolution on functionals. We see that the time evolution group U(t) splits into two semigroups, one for \(t>0\) and the other for \(t<0\), hence showing the irreversibility of the decaying process.