# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

December  2014, 3(4): 699-711. doi: 10.3934/eect.2014.3.699

## On the threshold for Kato's selfadjointness problem and its $L^p$-generalization

 1 Department of Mathematics, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Received  March 2014 Revised  May 2014 Published  October 2014

In this paper the selfadjointness problem for Schrödinger operators $Au = -div(a\nabla u)+Vu$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$ $(N\in\mathbb{N})$ posed by Kato in [5] and its $L^p$-generalization ($1< p <\infty$) are dealt with. Under $|a(x)|\leq k(1+|x|)^{l+2}$ and $V(x)\geq c|x|^{l}$, the precise lower bounds of $c$ for (essential) selfadjointness in $L^2$ and $m$-sectoriality in $L^p$ of minimal and maximal realizations of $A$ are given. The proof is based on the method in Davies [1,Example 3.5]. This result is a (negative) answer to Kato's selfadjointness problem, and asserts that the lower bounds of $c$ stated in [7,Section 5] for $p=2$ and in [12,Section 3] for general $p$, are precise.
Citation: Motohiro Sobajima. On the threshold for Kato's selfadjointness problem and its $L^p$-generalization. Evolution Equations & Control Theory, 2014, 3 (4) : 699-711. doi: 10.3934/eect.2014.3.699
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