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We consider Dirac operators defined on planar domains. For a large class of boundary conditions, we give a direct proof of their self-adjointness in the Sobolev space \(H^1\).
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Benguria, R.D., Fournais, S., Stockmeyer, E. et al. Self-Adjointness of Two-Dimensional Dirac Operators on Domains. Ann. Henri Poincaré 18, 1371–1383 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-017-0554-5
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