On symplectic self-adjointness of Hamiltonian operator matrices

Symplectic self-adjointness of Hamiltonian operator matrices is studied, which is important to symplectic elasticity and optimal control. For the cases of diagonal domain and off-diagonal domain, necessary and sufficient conditions are shown. The proofs use Frobenius-Schur factorizations of unbounded operator matrices.Under additional assumptions, sufficient conditions based on perturbation method are obtained. The theory is applied to a problem in symplectic elasticity.