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Indefinite Sturm-Liouville operators defined on the real line are often considered as a coupling of two semibounded symmetric operators defined on the positive and the negative half axis. In many situations, those two semibounded symmetric operators have in a special sense good properties like a Hilbert space self-adjoint extension. In this paper we present an abstract approach to the coupling of two (definitizable) self-adjoint operators. We obtain a characterization for the definitizability and the regularity of the critical points. Finally we study a typical class of indefinite Sturm-Liouville problems on the real line.

A J-frame is a frame F for a Krein space which is compatible with the indefinite inner product in the sense that it induces an indefinite reconstruction formula that resembles those produced by orthonormal bases in H . With every J-frame the so-called J-frame operator is associated, which is a self-adjoint operator in the Krein space H. The J-frame operator plays an essential role in the indefinite reconstruction formula. In this paper we characterize the class of J-frame operators in a Krein space by a 2X2 block operator representation. The J-frame bounds of F are then recovered as the suprema and infima of the numerical ranges of some uniformly positive operators which are build from the entries of the 2X2 block representation. Moreover, this 2X2 block representation is utilized to obtain enclosures for the spectrum of J-frame operators, which finally leads to the construction of a square root. This square root allows a complete description of all J-frames associated with a given J-frame operator.