On unbounded commuting Jacobi operators and some related issues

Abstract

Abstract We consider the situations, when two unbounded operators generated by infinite Jacobi matrices, are self-adjoint and commute. It is found that if two Jacobi matrices formally commute, then two corresponding operators are either self-adjoint and commute, or admit a commuting self-adjoint extensions. In the latter case such extensions are explicitly described. Also, some necessary and sufficient conditions for self-adjointness of Jacobi operators are studied.