Quasi-Carleman operators and their spectral properties (Q2342941)

The paper is devoted to the study of quasi-Carleman operators, that is, Hankel operators \[ (Hf)(t)=\int_0^\infty h(t+s)f(s)\,ds \] with kernels of the form \(h(t)=(t+r)^{-q}e^{-\alpha t}\), where \(r\geq 0\) and \(\alpha,q\) are real numbers. The first goal is to define operators \(H\) as (unbounded) self-adjoint operators on the space \(L^2({\mathbb R}_+)\). Sufficient conditions guaranteeing that the form \((Hf,f)\) defined on \(C_0^\infty({\mathbb R}_+)\) admits the closure in \(L^2({\mathbb R}_+)\) are found and the domain of its closure is described. Another goal of the paper is to study perturbations of singular Hankel operators by bounded quasi-Carleman operators \(V\) with kernels \(v(t)=v_0(t+\rho)^ke^{-\beta t}\), where \(v_0,k\in{\mathbb R}\), \(\beta\geq 0\), and \(\rho\geq 0\).