Completion and extension of operators in Kreĭn spaces

Abstract: A generalization of the well-known results of M.G. Kre\u{\i}n about the description of selfadjoint contractive extension of a hermitian contraction is obtained. This generalization concerns the situation, where the selfadjoint operator $A$ and extensions $\widetilde A$ belong to a Kre\u{\i}n space or a Pontryagin space and their defect operators are allowed to have a fixed number of negative eigenvalues. Also a result of Yu.L. Shmul'yan on completions of nonnegative block operators is generalized for block operators with a fixed number of negative eigenvalues in a Kre\u{\i}n space. This paper is a natural continuation of S. Hassi's and author's paper [5].