Abstract
We characterize the spectra of self-adjoint extensions of a symmetric operator with equal deficiency indices in terms of boundary values of their Weyl functions. A complete description is obtained for the point and absolutely continuous spectrum while for the singular continuous spectrum additional assumptions are needed. The results are illustrated by examples.
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