Relatively bounded perturbations of J-non-negative operators

Abstract

We improve known perturbation results for self-adjoint operators in Hilbert spaces and prove spectral enclosures for diagonally dominant $J$-self-adjoint operator matrices. These are used in the proof of the central result, a perturbation theorem for $J$-non-negative operators. The results are applied to singular indefinite Sturm-Liouville operators with $L^p$-potentials. Known bounds on the non-real eigenvalues of such operators are improved.