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Galoisian approach for a Sturm-Liouville problem on the infinite interval

Dynamical Systems 2010-09-08 v2 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We study a Sturm-Liouville type eigenvalue problem for second-order differential equations on the infinite interval. Here the eigenfunctions are nonzero solutions exponentially decaying at infinity. We prove that at any discrete eigenvalue the differential equations are integrable in the setting of differential Galois theory under general assumptions. Our result is illustrated with two examples for a stationary Schroedinger equation having a generalized Hulthen potential and an eigenvalue problem for a traveling front in the Allen-Cahn equation.

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@article{arxiv.1009.0979,
  title  = {Galoisian approach for a Sturm-Liouville problem on the infinite interval},
  author = {David Blazquez-Sanz and Kazuyuki Yagasaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.0979},
  year   = {2010}
}