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Essential Self-adjointness for Combinatorial Schrödinger Operators II-Metrically non Complete Graphs

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We consider weighted graphs, we equip them with a metric structure given by a weighted distance, and we discuss essential self-adjointness for weighted graph Laplacians and Schrödinger operators in the metrically non complete case.

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Colin de Verdière, Y., Torki-Hamza, N. & Truc, F. Essential Self-adjointness for Combinatorial Schrödinger Operators II-Metrically non Complete Graphs. Math Phys Anal Geom 14, 21–38 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11040-010-9086-7

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