Self-adjoint extensions of restrictions

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Abstract: We provide a simple recipe for obtaining all self-adjoint extensions, together with their resolvent, of the symmetric operator S obtained by restricting the self-adjoint operator A:D(A)subseteqHoH to the dense, closed with respect to the graph norm, subspace NsubsetD(A). Neither the knowledge of S nor of the deficiency spaces of S is required. Typically A is a differential operator and N is the kernel of some trace (restriction) operator along a null subset. We parametrise the extensions by the bundle pi:E(fh)oP(fh), where P(fh) denotes the set of orthogonal projections in the Hilbert space fhsimeqD(A)/N and pi1(Pi) is the set of self-adjoint operators in the range of Pi. The set of self-adjoint operators in fh, i.e. pi1(1), parametrises the relatively prime extensions. Any (Pi,Theta)inE(fh) determines a boundary condition in the domain of the corresponding extension APi,Theta and explicitly appears in the formula for the resolvent (APi,Theta+z)1. The connection with both von Neumann's and Boundary Triples theories of self-adjoint extensions is explained. Some examples related to quantum graphs, to Schr"odinger operators with point interactions and to elliptic boundary value problems are given.




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