Self-adjoint operators and their spectra play a crucial rôle in analysis and physics. For instance, in quantum physics self-adjoint operators are used to describe measurements and the spectrum represents the set of possible measurement results. Therefore, it is a natural question whether the spectrum of a self-adjoint operator can be computed from a description of the operator. We prove that gi...

We provide, by a resolvent Krĕın-like formula, all selfadjoint extensions of the symmetric operator S obtained by restricting the self-adjoint operator A : D(A) ⊆ H → H to the dense, closed with respect to the graph norm, subspace N ⊂ D(A). Neither the knowledge of S∗ nor of the deficiency spaces of S is required. Typically A is a differential operator and N is the kernel of some trace (restric...