On the similarity of Sturm-Liouville operators with non-Hermitian boundary conditions to self-adjoint and normal operators

DOI10.1007/S11785-013-0301-YzbMATH Open1410.34086arXiv1108.4946OpenAlexW3106373324MaRDI QIDQ403693FDOQ403693

David Krejčiřík, P. Siegl, Jakub Železný

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Complex Analysis and Operator Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider one-dimensional Schroedinger-type operators in a bounded interval with non-self-adjoint Robin-type boundary conditions. It is well known that such operators are generically conjugate to normal operators via a similarity transformation. Motivated by recent interests in quasi-Hermitian Hamiltonians in quantum mechanics, we study properties of the transformations in detail. We show that they can be expressed as the sum of the identity and an integral Hilbert-Schmidt operator. In the case of parity and time reversal boundary conditions, we establish closed integral-type formulae for the similarity transformations, derive the similar self-adjoint operator and also find the associated "charge conjugation" operator, which plays the role of fundamental symmetry in a Krein-space reformulation of the problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4946

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zbMATH Keywords

complex symmetric operatorSturm-Liouville operatorsHilbert-Schmidt operators\(\mathcal C\) operator\(\mathcal{PT}\)-symmetrydiscrete spectral operatormetric operatornon-symmetric Robin boundary conditionssimilarity to normal or self-adjoint operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Spectral operators, decomposable operators, well-bounded operators, etc. (47B40) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Sturm-Liouville theory (34B24)

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