Self-adjoint extensions with compact resolvent
Functional Analysis
2026-01-19 v1
Abstract
Let be a densely defined closed symmetric operator with equal deficiency indices in a separable complex Hilbert space . In this paper, we prove that has a self-adjoint extension with compact resolvent if and only if the domain of is compactly embedded in w.r.t. the graph norm on . If it is the case, we also prove that all self-adjoint extensions with compact resolvent can be parameterized by unitary operators on a certain Hilbert space such that is compact.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.11074,
title = {Self-adjoint extensions with compact resolvent},
author = {Yicao Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.11074},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
18 pages, no figures