Canonical Graph Contractions of Linear Relations on Hilbert Spaces

Given a closed linear relation T between two Hilbert spaces $$\mathcal {H}$$ H and $$\mathcal {K}$$ K , the corresponding first and second coordinate projections $$P_T$$ P T and $$Q_T$$ Q T are both linear contractions from T to $$\mathcal {H}$$ H , and to $$\mathcal {K}$$ K , respectively. In this paper we investigate the features of these graph contractions. We show among other things that $$P_T^{}P_T^*=(I+T^*T)^{-1}$$ P T P T ∗ = ( I + T ∗ T ) - 1 , and that $$Q_T^{}Q_T^*=I-(I+TT^*)^{-1}$$ Q T Q T ∗ = I - ( I + T T ∗ ) - 1 . The ranges $${\text {ran}}P_T^{*}$$ ran P T ∗ and $${\text {ran}}Q_T^{*}$$ ran Q T ∗ are proved to be closely related to the so called ‘regular part’ of T. The connection of the graph projections to Stone’s decomposition of a closed linear relation is also discussed.

Some analytic properties of the Weyl function of a closed linear relation

Let $L$ and $L_{0}$, where $L$ is an expansion of $L_{0}$, be closed linear relations (multivalued operators) in a Hilbert space $H$. In terms of abstract boundary operators (i.e. in the form which in the case of differential operators leads immediately to boundary conditions) some analytic properties of the Weyl function $M(\lambda)$ corresponding to a certain boundary pair of the couple $(L, L_{0}),$ are studied. In particular, applying Hilbert resolvent identity for relations, the criterion of invertibility in the algebra of bounded linear operators in $H$ for transformation $M(\lambda) - M(\lambda_{0})$ in certain small punctured neighbourhood of $\lambda_{0} $ is established. It is proved that in this case $\lambda _{0}$ is a first-order pole for the operator-function $\left(M(\lambda )- M(\lambda_{0} )\right)^{-1} $. The corresponding residue and Laurent series expansion are found. Under some additional assumptions, the behaviour of so called $\gamma$-field $Z_{\lambda}$ (being an operator-function closely connected to $M(\lambda)$) as $\lambda \to - \infty $ is investigated.