$C$-self-adjoint contractive extensions of $C$-symmetric non-densely defined contractions

Abstract: Given a conjugation (involution) $C$ on a Hilbert space, $C$-self-adjoint contractive extensions of a non-densely defined $C$-symmetric contraction are studied and parameterizations of all such extensions are obtained. As an application, a proof of an announced result of Glazman \cite{Glazman1} on the existence of maximal dissipative $C$-self-adjoint extensions of a densely defined $C$-symmetric dissipative operator is given.