For every symmetric operator acting in a Hilbert space, we introduce the families of p-analytic and p-quasi-analytic vectors (p>0), indexed by positive numbers. We prove various properties of these families. We make use of these families to show that certain results guaranteeing essential selfadjointness of an operator with sufficiently large sets of quasi-analytic and Stieltjes vectors are optimal.

E. Hille [Hi1] gave an example of an operator in L¹[0,1] satisfying the mean ergodic theorem (MET) and such that supₙ||Tⁿ|| = ∞ (actually, $\left|\right|Tⁿ\left|\right|\sim n^{1/4}$). This was the first example of a non-power bounded mean ergodic L¹ operator. In this note, the possible rates of growth (in n) of the norms of Tⁿ for such operators are studied. We show that, for every γ > 0, there are positive L¹ operators T satisfying the MET with $li{m}_{n\to \infty }\left|\right|Tⁿ\left|\right|/n^{1-\gamma }=\infty .IntheclassofpositiveoperatorstheseexamplesarethebestpossibleinthesensethatforeverysuchoperatorTthereexistsa\gamma ₀>0suchthat$lim supn→ ∞ ||Tⁿ||/n1-γ₀ = 0$.$A class of numerical sequences αₙ, intimately related to the...

A characterization of the structure of positive maps is presented. This sheds some more light on the old open problem studied both in Quantum Information and Operator Algebras. Our arguments are based on the concept of exposed points, links between tensor products and mapping spaces and convex analysis.