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16.—A Note on Adjoint Operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

A. Dijksma
Affiliation:
Mathematisch Instituut, Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen
H. S. V. de Snoo
Affiliation:
Mathematisch Instituut, Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen

Extract

In the Hilbertspace with (,) as inner product we consider the linear operator L with domain D(L) and the sesqui-linear form 〈, 〉 defined by

Let the symmetric operator L0 be the restriction of L to D(L0), where

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1975

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