I understand that a bounded (linear) operator $A$ on a Hilbert space $H$ satisfies a condition $||Av|| \le c ||v|| $ for some fixed real number $c$ and for all $v \in H$. So, the domain of a bounded operator is all of $H$.
- Presumably an unbounded operator fails to satisfy this requirement in some way. On the other hand some references seem to take "unbounded" as "not necessarily bounded" for example, in nLab, https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/unbounded+operator, "In particular every bounded operator $A: \mathcal{H} \to \mathcal{H}$ is an unbounded operator", So is an ubounded operator just an operator with a specified domain ?
- From what I've read, an unbounded operator has a domain $D(A) \subset H$, often taken to be dense in $H$. It isn't clear to me whether or not an unbounded operator is bounded on its domain ? I suspect not since the closed graph theorem says a closed operator defined on the whole space is bounded which suggests the existence of non-closed operators defined for the whole space which are not bounded.