%0 Journal Article %A García Pacheco, Francisco Javier %T The adjoint of an operator on a Banach space %D 2023 %@ 0010-0757 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/31355 %X Self-adjoint operators in smooth Banach spaces have been already defined in recent works. Here, we extend the concept of adjoint of an operator to the scope of (non-necessarily Hilbert) Banach spaces, obtaining in particular the notion of self-adjoint operator in the non-smooth case. As a consequence, we define the probability density operator on Banach spaces and verify most of its well-known properties. %K Duality mapping %K Probability density operator %K Probability density operator %K Smooth Banach space %~ Universidad de Cádiz