Essential self-adjointness of non-semibounded Schrödinger operators on infinite graphs

Abstract

We work in the setting of infinite, not necessarily locally finite, weighted graphs. We give a sufficient condition for the essential self-adjointness of (discrete) Schrödinger operators ${\mathcal{L}}_V$ that are not necessarily lower semi-bounded. As a corollary of the main result, we show that ${\mathcal{L}}_V$ is essentially self-adjoint if the potential $V$ satisfies $V(x)\ge -b_1-b_2[\ddot{I}(0,x){]}^2$, for all vertices $x$, where $o$ is a fixed vertex, $b_1$ and $b_2$ are non-negative constants, and $\ddot{I}$ is an intrinsic metric of finite jump size, such that the restriction of the weighted vertex degree to every ball corresponding to $\ddot{I}$ is bounded (not necessarily uniformly bounded).