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On the essential self-adjointness of Schrödinger operators with locally integrable potentials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

H. Kalf
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut der Universität München, Theresienstrasse 39, D-80333 Munchen, Germany
F. S. Rofe-Beketov
Affiliation:
B.I. Verkin Institute of Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, 47, Lenin Avenue, 310164 Kharkov, Ukraine

Extract

Results by Simader, Brézis and Cycon of the genre ‘locally essentially self-adjoint implies globally essentially self-adjoint’ are generalised to Schrödinger operators that are not necessarily bounded from below.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1998

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