Boundary values of resolvents of selfadjoint operators in Krein spaces (Q2440958): Difference between revisions

The need to study selfadjoint operators on spaces which are not Hilbert comes, in particular, from applications to the Klein-Gordon equation, when this equation is coupled to an electric field or associated to a non-stationary Lorentzian metric. The natural setting in this situation can be a selfadjoint operator on a so-called Krein space, where, in contrast to Hilbert spaces, the Hermitian form (scalar product) is not assumed to be positive definite. Though in the general case, the behavior of the resolvent of such an operator can be arbitrarily near the real axis as well as near infinity, there is a class of selfadjoint operators, called definitizable, which admit a rich functional calculus. The local definiteness of the Krein scalar product opens the way for an extension to the Krein spaces of the positive commutator method, which is a standard way to prove weighted resolvent estimates for the usual selfadjoint operators on a Hilbert space. The authors follow this way, proving first the commutator expansions and then the resolvent estimates. Finally, they give an application of their resolvent estimates associated with the abstract Klein-Gordon equation.