An approximate positive part of essentially self-adjoint pseudo-differential operators, II

Non-self-adjoint Differential Operators

We describe methods which have been used to analyze the spectrum of non-self-adjoint differential operators, emphasizing the differences from the self-adjoint theory. We find that even in cases in which the eigenfunctions can be determined explicitly, they often do not form a basis; this is closely related to a high degree of instability of the eigenvalues under small perturbations of the opera...

Adjoint and self - adjoint differential operators on graphs ∗

A differential operator on a directed graph with weighted edges is characterized as a system of ordinary differential operators. A class of local operators is introduced to clarify which operators should be considered as defined on the graph. When the edge lengths have a positive lower bound, all local self-adjoint extensions of the minimal symmetric operator may be classified by boundary condi...

The Laplace operator is essentially self-adjoint

A Characterization of Positive Self-adjoint Extensions and Its Application to Ordinary Differential Operators

A new characterization of the positive self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators, T0, is presented, which is based on the Friedrichs extension of T0, a direct sum decomposition of domain of the adjoint T ∗ 0 and the boundary mapping of T ∗ 0 . In applying this result to ordinary differential equations, we characterize all positive self-adjoint extensions of symmetric regular differential o...

Self-adjoint commuting differential operators of rank two

This is a survey of results on self-adjoint commuting ordinary differential operators of rank two. In particular, the action of automorphisms of the first Weyl algebra on the set of commuting differential operators with polynomial coefficients is discussed, as well as the problem of constructing algebro-geometric solutions of rank l > 1 of soliton equations. Bibliography: 59 titles.