Symmetric pairs and self-adjoint extensions of operators, with applications to energy networks

DOI10.1007/S11785-015-0522-3MaRDI QIDQ504574zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erin P. J. Pearse, Palle Jorgensen

Publication date 17 January 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03463

zbMATH Keywords

spectral graph theoryHilbert spacereproducing kernelself-adjoint extensionsymmetric paireffective resistanceFriedrichs extensiongraph energygraph Laplacianspectral resolutiondefect indicesresistance networkunbounded linear operatoressentially self-adjointKrein extension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Small world graphs, complex networks (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C82) Infinite graphs (05C63) Hilbert spaces with reproducing kernels (= (proper) functional Hilbert spaces, including de Branges-Rovnyak and other structured spaces) (46E22) Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25) Radon-Nikodým, Kre?n-Milman and related properties (46B22) Hermitian and normal operators (spectral measures, functional calculus, etc.) (47B15) Linear operators in reproducing-kernel Hilbert spaces (including de Branges, de Branges-Rovnyak, and other structured spaces) (47B32) Linear difference operators (47B39)

Abstract: We provide a streamlined construction of the Friedrichs extension of a densely-defined self-adjoint and semibounded operator $A$ on a Hilbert space $mathcalH$, by means of a symmetric pair of operators. A emph{symmetric pair} is comprised of densely defined operators $J:mathcal{H}_{1}omathcal{H}_2$ and $K:mathcal{H}_{2}omathcal{H}_1$ which are compatible in a certain sense. With the appropriate definitions of $mathcal{H}_1$ and $J$ in terms of $A$ and $mathcalH$, we show that $(J{J}^{s}tar{)}^{-1}$ is the Friedrichs extension of $A$. Furthermore, we use related ideas (including the notion of unbounded containment) to construct a generalization of the construction of the Krein extension of $A$ as laid out in a previous paper of the authors. These results are applied to the study of the graph Laplacian on infinite networks, in relation to the Hilbert spaces $el{l}^2(G)$ and $mathcal{H}_{mathcalE}$ (the energy space).

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