Conditions implying commutativity of unbounded self-adjoint operators and related topics (Q2835254)

Let \(A\) and \(B\) be two self-adjoint operators where only \(B\) is bounded. The aim of the paper is to find conditions sufficient for the self-adjointness of the product of these operators. It is proved that NEWLINENEWLINE\(\bullet\) If \(A\) is positive and \(BA\) is norma, then \(BA\), \(AB\) are self-adjoint and \(AB = BA\). NEWLINENEWLINE\(\bullet\) If \(A\) is positive and \(AB\) is normal, then \(\overline{BA}\), \(AB\) are self-adjoint and \(AB = \overline{BA}\).NEWLINENEWLINEEditor's remark. In the Acknowledgements, the authors give credit to \textit{W. Rehder}'s paper [Int. J. Math. Math. Sci. 5, 813--816 (1982; Zbl 0503.47018)], which apparently had been overlooked in [\textit{E. Albrecht} and \textit{P. G. Spain}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 128, No.~8, 2509--2511 (2000; Zbl 0951.47022)] and [\textit{M. H. Mortad}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 131, No.~10, 3135--3141 (2003; Zbl 1049.47019)].