Sturm-Liouville boundary value problems with operator potentials and unitary equivalence

Abstract: Consider the minimal Sturm-Liouville operator

A = A_{m m i n}

generated by the differential expression

m a t h c a l A := - f r a c d^{2} d t^{2} + T

in the Hilbert space

L^{2} (m a t h b b R_{+}, m a t h c a l H)

where

T = T^{*} g e 0

in

m a t h c a l H

. We investigate the absolutely continuous parts of different self-adjoint realizations of

m a t h c a l A

. In particular, we show that Dirichlet and Neumann realizations,

A^{D}

and

A^{N}

, are absolutely continuous and unitary equivalent to each other and to the absolutely continuous part of the Krein realization. Moreover, if

i n f s i g m a_{e s s} (T) = i n f s i g m a (T) g e 0

, then the part

of any self-adjoint realization

w i d e h a t A

of

m a t h c a l A

is unitarily equivalent to

A^{D}

. In addition, we prove that the absolutely continuous part

w i d e h a t A^{a c}

of any realization

w i d e h a t A

is unitarily equivalent to

A^{D}

provided that the resolvent difference

(w i d e h a t A - i)^{- 1} - (A^{D} - i)^{- 1}

is compact. The abstract results are applied to elliptic differential expression in the half-space.

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