Representations of closed quadratic forms associated with Stieltjes and inverse Stieltjes holomorphic families of linear relations

Abstract: In this paper holomorphic families of linear relations which belong to the Stieltjes or inverse Stieltjes class are studied. It is shown that in their domain of holomorphy ${\mathbb C}\setminus{\mathbb R}_+$ the values of Stieltjes and inverse Stieltjes families are, up to a rotation, maximal sectorial. This leads to a study of the associated closed sesquilinear forms and their representations. In particular, it is shown that the closed forms associated with the Stieltjes and inverse Stieltjes families of linear relations are holomorphic families of type (B) in the sense of Kato. These results are proved by using linear fractional transforms which connect these families to holomorphic functions that belong to a combined Nevanlinna-Schur class and a key tool then relies on a specific structure of contractive operators.