Self-adjoint extensions of commuting Hermitian operators (Q753111)

The main result of this article establishes, in a special but interesting context, sufficient conditions under which two commuting Hermitian operators have commuting selfadjoint extensions. One supposes that the closure of the first Hermitian operator is selfadjoint and the defect numbers of the second one are equal. The operators act in a Hilbert space obtained as the completion of the tensor product of two Hilbert spaces in a norm corresponding to a positive definite kernel. Results of this type are closely related to the existence of integral representations and extensions for positive definite kernels.