On the Absolutely Continuous Subspace for Non - Selfadjoint Operators (Q4946801)

The aim of the paper under review is to define the absolutely continuous subspaces of non-selfadjoint operators defined as pseudo-Friedrichs extensions of \(\bar{L}_0=A_0+V+(i/2)\alpha\kappa\alpha\) with the natural domain, where \(A_0\), \(V_0\), \(\alpha\) and \(\kappa\) are selfadjoint operators satisfying certain conditions. It continues the approach developed in a previous paper of the present authors [``On the absolutely continuous subspace for contractions and dissipative operators'', Preprint SFB 288, No. 205, TU Berlin, (1996)] and in a paper of \textit{A. S. Tikhonov} [``Absolutely continuous spectrum of linear operators'', Dep. Ukr. NIINTI 27.09.1988, No. 2471 -- Uk 88, Simferopol, (1988) (in Russian)]. The authors used an explicit construction of selfadjoint dilation of maximal dissipative operators due to \textit{B. S. Pavlov} [``Selfadjoint dilation of the dissipative Schrödinger operator and its resolution in terms of eigenfunctions'', Mat. Sb. SSSR 102, No. 4, 511-536 (1977) (in Russian); English translation: Math. USSR, Sb. 31, 457-478 (1977; Zbl 0388.47003)]. Then, the singular subspace of \(L^*\) is defined to be the space which naturally arises in the Lax-Phillips scattering theory applied for this dilation and in certain cases it is shown to be characterized in terms of the boundary values of the resolvent. The results are applied to Schrödinger operators.