This paper is concerned with emptyness of the essential spectrum, or equivalently compactness of the semigroup, for perturbations of selfadjoint operators that are bounded below (on an L2-space). For perturbations by a (nonnegative) potential we obtain a simple criterion for compactness of the semigroup in terms of relative compactness of the operators of multiplication with characteristic func...

The indefinite Sturm-Liouville operator A = (sgnx)(−d2/dx2 + q(x)) is studied. It is proved that similarity of A to a selfadjoint operator is equivalent to integral estimates of Cauchy integrals. Also similarity conditions in terms of Weyl functions are given. For operators with a finite-zone potential, the components Aess and Adisc of A corresponding to essential and discrete spectrums, respec...

The indefinite Sturm-Liouville operator A = (sgnx)(−d2/dx2 + q(x)) is studied. It is proved that similarity of A to a selfadjoint operator is equivalent to integral estimates of Cauchy integrals. Also similarity conditions in terms of Weyl functions are given. For operators with a finite-zone potential, the components Aess and Adisc of A corresponding to essential and discrete spectrums, respec...

The indefinite Sturm-Liouville operator A = (sgn x)(−d2/dx2 + q(x)) is studied. It is proved that similarity of A to a selfadjoint operator is equivalent to integral estimates of Cauchy integrals. Also similarity conditions in terms of Weyl functions are given. For operators with a finite-zone potential, the components Aess and Adisc of A corresponding to essential and discrete spectrums, respe...