Quasi Gelfand Triples

Abstract We generalize the notion of Gelfand triples (also called Banach-Gelfand triples or rigged Hilbert spaces) by dropping the necessity of a continuous embedding. This means in our setting we lack of a chain inclusion. We replace the continuous embedding by a closed embedding of a dense subspace. This notion will be called quasi Gelfand triple . These triples appear naturally, when we regard the boundary spaces of spatially multidimensional differential operators, e.g., the Maxwell operator. We will show that there is a smallest space where we can continuously embed the entire triple. Moreover, we will show density results for intersections of members of the quasi Gelfand triple. Finally, we show that every quasi Gelfand triple can be decomposed into two “ordinary” Gelfand triples.