On Sesquilinear Forms for Lower Semibounded (Singular) Sturm-Liouville Operators
Classical Analysis and ODEs
2025-09-10 v1 Spectral Theory
Abstract
Any self-adjoint extension of a (singular) Sturm-Liouville operator bounded from below uniquely leads to an associated sesquilinear form. This form is characterized in terms of principal and nonprincipal solutions of the Sturm-Liouville operator by using generalized boundary values. We provide these forms in detail in all possible cases (explicitly, when both endpoints are limit circle, when one endpoint is limit circle, and when both endpoints are limit point).
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@article{arxiv.2509.07205,
title = {On Sesquilinear Forms for Lower Semibounded (Singular) Sturm-Liouville Operators},
author = {Jussi Behrndt and Fritz Gesztesy and Seppo Hassi and Roger Nichols and Henk de Snoo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.07205},
year = {2025}
}
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28 pages