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A Glazman-Povzner-Wienholtz Theorem on graphs

Spectral Theory 2021-12-30 v2 Mathematical Physics Functional Analysis math.MP

Abstract

The Glazman-Povzner-Wienholtz theorem states that the completeness of a manifold, when combined with the semiboundedness of the Schr\"odinger operator Δ+q-\Delta + q and suitable local regularity assumptions on qq, guarantees its essential self-adjointness. Our aim is to extend this result to Schr\"odinger operators on graphs. We first obtain the corresponding theorem for Schr\"odinger operators on metric graphs, allowing in particular distributional potentials qHloc1q\in H^{-1}_{\rm loc}. Moreover, we exploit recently discovered connections between Schr\"odinger operators on metric graphs and weighted graphs in order to prove a discrete version of the Glazman-Povzner-Wienholtz theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2105.09931,
  title  = {A Glazman-Povzner-Wienholtz Theorem on graphs},
  author = {Aleksey Kostenko and Mark Malamud and Noema Nicolussi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.09931},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

24 pages; After submission we learned that the discrete version of the Glazman-Povzner-Wienholtz theorem (Theorem 6.1) was proved earlier by a different approach in arXiv:1301.1304 (see Theorem 2.16 there)