Self-adjoint extensions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and unitaries at the boundary (Q2513273)

The main purpose of this paper is to construct a family of closed quadratic forms corresponding to a class of self-adjoint extensions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on smooth Riemannian manifolds with smooth boundary. After introducing the class of quadratic forms whose closability and semi-boundedness is established in the present paper, the authors specify the domains of the self-adjoint extensions in terms of a class of maximal isotropic subspaces. The class of admissible unitary operators leading to closable and semi-bounded quadratic forms is also introduced by the authors. In the next section, there are stated the main theorems proving the closability and semi-boundedness of the quadratic forms. In the final section of this paper, various families with admissible unitaries at the boundary are provided by using several choices of values of the boundary data.