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Sesquilinear forms corresponding to a non-semibounded Sturm–Liouville operator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2010

Andreas Fleige
Affiliation:
Baroper Schulstrasse 27A, 44225 Dortmund, Germany (andreas-fleige@versanet.de)
Seppo Hassi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vaasa, PO Box 700, 65101 Vaasa, Finland (sha@uwasa.fi)
Henk de Snoo
Affiliation:
Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Groningen, PO Box 407, 9700 AK Groningen, The Netherlands (desnoo@math.rug.nl)
Henrik Winkler
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics MA 6-4, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany (winkler@math.tu-berlin.de)

Abstract

Let −DpD be a differential operator on the compact interval [−b, b] whose leading coefficient is positive on (0, b] and negative on [−b, 0), with fixed, separated, self-adjoint boundary conditions at b and −b and an additional interface condition at 0. The self-adjoint extensions of the corresponding minimal differential operator are non-semibounded and are related to non-semibounded sesquilinear forms by a generalization of Kato's representation theorems. The theory of non-semibounded sesquilinear forms is applied to this concrete situation. In particular, the generalized Friedrichs extension is obtained as the operator associated with the unique regular closure of the minimal sesquilinear form. Moreover, among all closed forms associated with the self-adjoint extensions, the regular closed forms are identified. As a consequence, eigenfunction expansion theorems are obtained for the differential operators as well as for certain indefinite Kreĭn–Feller operators with a single concentrated mass.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2010

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