Self-adjoint, globally defined Hamiltonian operators for systems with boundaries

Abstract: For a general self-adjoint Hamiltonian operator

H_{0}

on the Hilbert space

L^{2} (R E^{d})

, we determine the set of all self-adjoint Hamiltonians

H

on

L^{2} (R E^{d})

that dynamically confine the system to an open set

O m e g a s u b s e t R E^{d}

while reproducing the action of

H_{0}

on an appropriate operator domain. In the case

H_{0} = - D e l t a + V

we construct these Hamiltonians explicitly showing that they can be written in the form

H = H_{0} + B

, where

B

is a singular boundary potential and

H

is self-adjoint on its maximal domain. An application to the deformation quantization of one-dimensional systems with boundaries is also presented.

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