Perturbation of a self-adjoint operator by a subordinate symmetric operator

The following variant of Rellich's theorem is proved. Let A,B be operators in a Hilbert space, A=A^*, BB^* and D(B)D(A). We assume that (Bu,u)(Au,u), uD(A) for some> –1. Then the operator A + B with domain of definition D(A) is self-adjoint.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 147, pp. 196–198, 1985.