Accretive and nonnegative perturbations of an abstract analogy for the operator of the third boundary problem and corresponding variational problems (Q402831)

In this paper, the authors study perturbations of a proper extension of a positive definite operator \(L_{0}\) acting in a Hilbert space \(H\). The main object of the investigation is the operator \(\widetilde{L}_{B}\). It is interpreted as a perturbation of some proper extension of \(L_{0}\). Using methods of extension theory, criteria of maximal accretivity and maximal nonnegativity for \(\widetilde{L}_{B}\) are established. In the case when \(\widetilde{L}_{B}\) is a positive definite operator, its energetic space is constructed and the solvability of the corresponding variational problem is proved. Moreover, the situation when \(L_{0}\) is the minimal differential operator generated in the space of infinite-dimensional vector-functions by the Sturm-Liouville differential expression is considered.