Friedrichs extensions of Schrödinger operators with singular potentials (Q1826779)

The authors derive the Friedrichs extension of the singular Hamiltonians \[ H_\lambda=- \frac{d^2}{dx^2}+ Bx^2+ Ax^{-2}+ \lambda x^{-\alpha} \quad (B>0, A\geq 0), \] in the Hilbert space \(L_2(0,\infty)\). The authors look at two different domains of definition for each of these differential operators in \(L_2(0,\infty)\), namely \(C_0^\infty (0,\infty)\) and \(D(T_{2,F})\cap D(M_{\lambda, \alpha})\), where the latter is a subspace of the Sobolev space \(W_{2,2} (0,\infty)\). Adjoints of these differential operators in \(C_0^\infty (0,\infty)\) exist as a result of the null-space properties of functionals. The authors show that, for the other domains, convolutions and Jensen and Minkowski integral inequalities, density of \(C_0^\infty (0,\infty)\) in \(D(T_{2,f})\cap D(M_{\lambda,\alpha})\) and in \(L_2(0,\infty)\) lead to other adjoints.