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Boundary relations and their Weyl families
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by Vladimir Derkach, Seppo Hassi, Mark Malamud and Henk de Snoo PDF
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358 (2006), 5351-5400 Request permission

Abstract:

The concepts of boundary relations and the corresponding Weyl families are introduced. Let $S$ be a closed symmetric linear operator or, more generally, a closed symmetric relation in a Hilbert space $\mathfrak {H}$, let $\mathcal {H}$ be an auxiliary Hilbert space, let \[ J_\mathfrak {H}=\begin {pmatrix}0&-iI_\mathfrak {H} iI_\mathfrak {H} & 0\end {pmatrix}, \] and let $J_\mathcal {H}$ be defined analogously. A unitary relation $\Gamma$ from the Kreĭn space $(\mathfrak {H}^2,J_\mathfrak {H})$ to the Kreĭn space $(\mathcal {H}^2,J_\mathcal {H})$ is called a boundary relation for the adjoint $S^*$ if $\ker \Gamma =S$. The corresponding Weyl family $M(\lambda )$ is defined as the family of images of the defect subspaces $\widehat {\mathfrak {N}}_\lambda$, $\lambda \in \mathbb {C}\setminus \mathbb {R}$, under $\Gamma$. Here $\Gamma$ need not be surjective and is even allowed to be multi-valued. While this leads to fruitful connections between certain classes of holomorphic families of linear relations on the complex Hilbert space $\mathcal {H}$ and the class of unitary relations $\Gamma :(\mathfrak {H}^2,J_\mathfrak {H})\to (\mathcal {H}^2,J_\mathcal {H})$, it also generalizes the notion of so-called boundary value space and essentially extends the applicability of abstract boundary mappings in the connection of boundary value problems. Moreover, these new notions yield, for instance, the following realization theorem: every $\mathcal {H}$-valued maximal dissipative (for $\lambda \in \mathbb {C}_+$) holomorphic family of linear relations is the Weyl family of a boundary relation, which is unique up to unitary equivalence if certain minimality conditions are satisfied. Further connections between analytic and spectral theoretical properties of Weyl families and geometric properties of boundary relations are investigated, and some applications are given.
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  • Vladimir Derkach
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Donetsk National University, Universitetskaya str. 24, 83055 Donetsk, Ukraine
  • Email: derkach@univ.donetsk.ua
  • Seppo Hassi
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vaasa, P.O. Box 700, 65101 Vaasa, Finland
  • Email: sha@uwasa.fi
  • Mark Malamud
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Donetsk National University, Universitetskaya str. 24, 83055 Donetsk, Ukraine
  • MR Author ID: 193515
  • Email: mmm@univ.donetsk.ua
  • Henk de Snoo
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Email: desnoo@math.rug.nl
  • Received by editor(s): September 15, 2004
  • Published electronically: July 20, 2006
  • Additional Notes: The present research was supported by the Research Institute for Technology at the University of Vaasa and by the Academy of Finland (projects 203226, 208055)
  • © Copyright 2006 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358 (2006), 5351-5400
  • MSC (2000): Primary 47A06, 47A20, 47A56, 47B25; Secondary 47A48, 47B50
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-06-04033-5
  • MathSciNet review: 2238919