On the deficiency indices of block Jacobi matrices related to Dirac operators with point interactions (Q2304517)

The paper is devoted to block Jacobi matrices, that is, tridiagonal Hermitian infinite matrices in which every matrix element is a \(p\times p\) matrix, \(p\ge 1\). It is known that the deficiency numbers \(n_\pm\) of the corresponding symmetric operators satisfy the inequality \(0\le n_\pm \le p\). The authors find new classes of such matrices, for which the deficiency numbers take maximal or intermediate values. Applications to one-dimensional Dirac operators with point interactions are given.