Off-diagonal terms in symmetric operators

DOI10.1063/1.533242MaRDI QIDQ2737934zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Palle Jorgensen

Publication date 30 August 2001

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9911017

zbMATH Keywords

common dense and invariant domaindeficiency indicesobstructions to essential self-adjointnesssmooth projectionssymmetric operatorvon Neumann theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Several-variable operator theory (spectral, Fredholm, etc.) (47A13) Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25) Jacobi (tridiagonal) operators (matrices) and generalizations (47B36)

Abstract: In this paper we provide a quantitative comparison of two obstructions for a given symmetric operator S with dense domain in Hilbert space $calH$ to be selfadjoint. The first one is the pair of deficiency spaces of von Neumann, and the second one is of more recent vintage: Let P be a projection in $calH$. We say that it is smooth relative to S if its range is contained in the domain of S. We say that smooth projections ${P_i}_{i=1}^{infty}$ diagonalize S if (a) $(I-P_i)S{P}_i=0$ for all i, and (b) $su{p}_i{P}_i=I$. If such projections exist, then S has a selfadjoint closure (i.e., $$ has a spectral resolution), and so our second obstruction to selfadjointness is defined from smooth projections $P_i$ with $(I-P_i)S{P}_{i}eq0$. We prove results both in the case of a single operator S and a system of operators.

Review text

Two obstructions to (essential) self-adjointness of a given symmetric operator \(S\) on some Hilbert space \({\mathcal H}\) are discussed. They are based on the classical von Neumann theory on deficiency indices and on the notion of smooth projections relative to \(S\), i.e. a family \((P_j)_{j\in\mathbb{N}}\) of projections in \({\mathcal H}\) such that the union of its ranges is dense in \({\mathcal H}\) and such that the range of each \(P_j\) is contained in the domain of \(S\). The results are then extended to finite families of symmetric operators which have a common dense and invariant domain in \({\mathcal H}\).

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