On positive differential operators (deficiency indices, factorization, perturbations)

DOI10.1017/S0308210500032030zbMath0596.47032MaRDI QIDQ3728697

F. S. Rofe-Beketov

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

perturbations; resolvent convergence; Berezankij's theorem on essential self-adjointness; Courant theorem on variations of the domain; densely or non-densely defined elliptic differential operators; equations of any order with operator-valued coefficients; Etgen-Pawlowski oscillation criterion; finite velocity of propagation; Krein-Heinz-Rellich factorization theorems; stability of discrete spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

47B25: Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded)

47E05: General theory of ordinary differential operators

47A68: Factorization theory (including Wiener-Hopf and spectral factorizations) of linear operators

47F05: General theory of partial differential operators

47A20: Dilations, extensions, compressions of linear operators