Povzner-Wienholtz-type theorems for Sturm-Liouville operators with singular coefficients (Q2090774)

The self-adjointness of the operator connected with a given differential expression is studied in the paper. The considered expression is \[ l[u]:=-(pu')'+qu+i ((ru)'+ru'). \] Two operators are defined by this expression, \(L\) with the domain consisting of \(L^2(\mathbb{R})\) functions with the quasi-derivative locally absolutely continuous and \(l[u]\) in \(L^2(\mathbb{R})\) and the operator \(L_{00}\) with the domain consisting of functions with compact support in the domain of \(L\). The main result of the paper is that under certain assumptions on the functions \(p\), \(q\), and \(r\), boundedness of \(L_{00}\) from below implies self-adjointness of \(L\).