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Essential self-adjointness of non-semibounded Schr\"odinger operators on infinite graphs

Spectral Theory 2025-10-02 v1

Abstract

We work in the setting of infinite, not necessarily locally finite, weighted graphs. We give a sufficient condition for the essential self-adjointness of (discrete) Schr\"odinger operators LV\mathcal{L}_{V} that are not necessarily lower semi-bounded. As a corollary of the main result, we show that LV\mathcal{L}_{V} is essentially self-adjoint if the potential VV satisfies V(x)b1b2[ρ(0,x)]2V(x)\geq -b_1-b_2[\rho(0,x)]^2, for all vertices xx, where oo is a fixed vertex, b1b_1 and b2b_2 are non-negative constants, and ρ\rho is an intrinsic metric of finite jump size, such that the restriction of the weighted vertex degree to every ball corresponding to ρ\rho is bounded (not necessarily uniformly bounded).

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@article{arxiv.2510.00944,
  title  = {Essential self-adjointness of non-semibounded Schr\"odinger operators on infinite graphs},
  author = {Ognjen Milatovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.00944},
  year   = {2025}
}