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Let S be a symmetric operator with finite and equal defect numbers d in the Hilbert space \(\mathfrak{H}\), and with a boundary triplet \((\mathbb{C}^d, \Gamma_1, \Gamma_2)\). Following the method of E.A. Coddington, we describe all self-adjoint extensions \(\tilde{A}\) of S in a Hilbert space \(\tilde{\mathfrak{H}}\;=\;\mathfrak{H}\oplus \mathfrak{H}_1\) where \(\mathrm{dim}\;\mathfrak{H}_1\;<\;\infty\). The parameters in this description are matrices \(\mathcal{A,B,U,V}\;\mathrm{and}\;\mathcal{E}\), where \(\mathcal{A}\;\mathrm{and}\;\mathcal{B}\) determine the compression \(A_0\;\mathrm{of}\;\tilde{A}\;\mathrm{to}\;\mathfrak{H}\). According to a result of W. Stenger, this compression \(A_0\) is self-adjoint. Being a canonical self-adjoint extension of S, \(A_0\) can be chosen as the fixed extension in M.G. Krein’s formula for the description of all generalized resolvents of S. Among other results, we describe those parameters which in Krein’s formula correspond to self-adjoint extensions of S having \(A_0\) as their compression to \(\mathfrak{H}\).
Dedicated to our colleague, coauthor and dear friend Daniel Alpay on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). 47B25, 47A20, 47A56
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Dijksma, A., Langer, H. (2017). Finite-dimensional Self-adjoint Extensions of a Symmetric Operator with Finite Defect and their Compressions. In: Colombo, F., Sabadini, I., Struppa, D., Vajiac, M. (eds) Advances in Complex Analysis and Operator Theory. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62362-7_6
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