Properties of Unitary operators on Hilbert spaces

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Is it true that for every unitary extension $U' \supset U$

$\psi \in \{ {\frak Dom}(U)\}^\perp \Longleftrightarrow U'\psi \in \{ U'({\frak Dom} (U))\}^\perp$

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My question is: how can I be sure that $\{ {\frak Dom}(U)\}^\perp \subset \{{\frak Dom }(U')\}$? And why does $U' \psi$ belong to $\{ U'({\frak Dom} (U))\}^\perp$ and not simply to $\{{\frak Ran }(U')\}$?

Could you prove it?

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It is true that ${\frak Dom}(U)^\perp \subset {\frak Dom }(U')$ if we assume that orthogonal complement in ${\frak Dom}(U)^\perp$ is taken relative to the same space on which the extension $U'$ is defined. More precisely, suppose $B$ is a vector space and $U: A\to A$ is a unitary map defined on a subspace $A = {\frak Dom}(U)$ of $B$. Consider an extension $U':B\to B$ of $U$ defined on the whole space $B$. In this case, we have

$${\frak Dom}(U)^\perp = A^\perp \subset B = {\frak Dom}(U')$$

by construction.

Affirmative answer to the second question follows from the fact that the inverse of a unitary map is its Hermitian adjoint. Let $\psi \in {\frak Dom}(U)^\perp$. To prove that $U'\psi \in (U'{\frak Dom}(U))^\perp$ we need to show that $\langle U'\psi, \phi\rangle = 0$ for every $\phi \in U'{\frak Dom}(U)$. However,

$$ \langle U'\psi, \phi\rangle = \langle \psi, U'^{-1}\phi\rangle = 0 $$

where the last equality follows from the facts that $U'^{-1}\phi \in {\frak Dom}(U)$ and $\psi \in {\frak Dom}(U)^\perp$.