Unbounded commutator conjecture for self-adjoint operators

Let AA be an unbounded self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space. Unbounded commutator conjecture. There is always a bounded self-adjoint operator BB such that ABBAAB-BA is unbounded. This conjecture asks whether every unbounded self-adjoint operator has a bounded self-adjoint operator with which its commutator is unbounded; it is presented as an open question motivated by an earlier pair of operators in the paper.

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Mohammed Hichem Mortad, “Counterexamples Related to Commutators of Unbounded Operators”, arXiv:1811.09893 (2018).

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