Friedrichs extension

ID: friedrichs-extension

The Friedrichs extension is a concept from functional analysis and operator theory, particularly related to self-adjoint operators in the context of quantum mechanics and partial differential equations. It provides a way to extend an unbounded symmetric operator to a self-adjoint operator, which is crucial because self-adjoint operators have well-defined spectral properties and their associated physical observables are mathematically rigorous.

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