Noncommuting domination in Krein spaces via commutators of block operator matrices (Q2464660)

In this paper, the author investigates the commutators of \(2\times 2\) block operator matrices with (unbounded) operator entries. The matrix representation of a symmetric operator in a Krein space is exploited. As a consequence, the author extends the domination result due to Cichoń, Stochel and Szafraniec to the case of Krein spaces as follows: Let \(\mathcal H=\mathcal H_0\oplus \mathcal H_1\) be an orthogonal sum of two Hilbert spaces. Let \(S\) and \(B\) be \({\mathcal H_0}\)-bounded operators with block operator matrix representations \(\left(\begin{smallmatrix} S_{00}& -S_{10}^\ast\\ S_{10}& S_{11}\end{smallmatrix}\right)\) and \(\left(\begin{smallmatrix} B_{00}& -B_{10}^\ast\\ B_{10}& B_{11}\end{smallmatrix}\right)\) such that \(S_{11}\) (resp., \(B_{11}\)) is a selfadjoint (resp., a symmetric) operator in \(\mathcal H_1\). Assume also that \(U\) is of type \(\Omega_S\), which means that \(U\) is a unbounded subset of the resolvent set of \(S\) and there exist \(t>0\) and \(d\geq0\) such that for all \(z\in U\), \(| z| >d\) and \(| z| \| (S-z)^{-1}\| \leq t\). If for some \(m\in\mathbb N\setminus \{0\}\), \(\mathcal H_0\subseteq \mathcal D(S^m)\subseteq \mathcal D(B)\) and \[ \sup_{z\in U}| z| \;\| [(S-z)^{-1},\, B]\| <\infty, \] then \(B_{11}\) is essentially selfadjoint on any core of \(S^m_{11}\).