Spectral Theory

We solve the open problem by Demuth, Hansmann, and Katriel announced in [Integr. Equ. Oper. Theory 75 (2013), 1-5] by a counter-example construction. The problem concerns a possible generalisation of the Lieb-Thirring inequality for…

This paper deals with the Sturm-Liouville operators with distribution potentials of the space $W_2^{-1}$ on a metric tree. We study an inverse spectral problem that consists in the recovery of the potentials from the characteristic…

We study the interplay between spectrum, geometry and boundary conditions for two distinguished self-adjoint realisations of the Laplacian on infinite metric graphs, the so-called riedrichs and Neumann extensions. We introduce a new…

We work in the setting of infinite, not necessarily locally finite, weighted graphs. We give a sufficient condition for the essential self-adjointness of (discrete) Schr\"odinger operators $\mathcal{L}_{V}$ that are not necessarily lower…

We study the problem of constructing $k$-spectral minimal partitions of domains in $d$ dimensions, where the energy functional to be minimized is a $p$-norm ($1 \le p \le \infty$) of the infimum of the spectrum of a suitable Schr\"odinger…

In this paper, we investigate the inverse spectral problem of the Sturm-Liouville operator with many frozen arguments fixed at the points $\{a_{1}, a_{2},\ldots,a_{N}\}$ in $(0,\pi)$. We start with counting the zeros or the eigenvalues of…

We establish a correspondence between the semi-infinite and infinite Volterra lattices having a finite logarithmic Hamiltonian and certain classes of even probability measures. In doing so, we apply the inverse spectral theory of Jacobi…

We study infinite sums \[ {\mathcal P}_{\varkappa}=\sum_{n=-\infty}^\infty \varkappa_n \langle\cdot, \psi_n\rangle\psi_n \] of rank-one projections in a Hilbert space, where $\{\psi_n\}_{n\in\mathbb Z}$ are norm-one vectors, not necessarily…

We introduce a new class of operators: ergodic families of self-adjoint Hankel operators realised as integral operators on the half-line. Inspired by the spectral theory of differential and finite-difference operators with ergodic…

We refine the cycle-walk (Fourier) template of Gnacik and the author to quantify when a~$\delta$-Sule\u{\i}manova spectrum $(1,\lambda_2,\dots,\lambda_n)$ (with $\lambda_j\le 0$) is realised by a symmetric doubly stochastic matrix. For the…

In the present paper, we study the variational properties of Steklov transmission eigenvalues, which can be seen as eigenvalues of the sum of two Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators on two different sides of a given curve contained in a surface.…

In 2018, Arizmendi and Juarez introduced the concept of energy of a vertex, a novel approach allowing the total energy of a graph to be expressed as the sum of the energies of its individual vertices. In this article, we extend the notion…

We consider periodic Schr\"{o}dinger operators on the hexagonal lattice with self-adjoint vertex conditions that allow discontinuity and concentrated mass at the vertices. This model generalizes the periodic Schr\"{o}dinger operator on the…

In this paper, we consider the inverse spectral problem of determining the spherically symmetric refractive index in a bounded spherical region of radius $b$. Instead of the usual case of the refractive index $\rho\in W^2_2$, by using…

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n\ge 2$ be a bounded Lipschitz domain with outer unit normal $\nu$. For $\alpha\in\mathbb{R}$ let $R_\Omega^\alpha$ be the Laplacian in $\Omega$ with the Robin boundary condition $\partial_\nu u+\alpha…

We study the self-adjointness of the two-dimensional Dirac operator coupled with electrostatic and Lorentz scalar shell interactions of constant strength $\varepsilon$ and $\mu$ supported on a closed Lipschitz curve. Namely, we present…

We discuss the spectral properties of three-dimensional Dirac operators with critical combinations of electrostatic and Lorentz scalar shell interactions supported by a compact smooth surface. It turns out that the criticality of the…

Using boundary triples, we develop an abstract framework to investigate the complete non-selfadjointness of the maximally dissipative extensions of dissipative operators of the form $S+iV$, where $S$ is symmetric with equal finite defect…

Let $H = -d^2/dx^2 + q(x)$, $x \in \mathbb{R}$, where $q(x)$ is a periodic potential, and suppose that the spectrum $\sigma(H)$ of $H$ is the positive semi-axis $[0, \infty)$. In the case where $q(x)$ is real-valued (and locally…

We prove a dichotomy of almost periodicity for reflectionless one-dimensional Dirac operators whose spectra satisfy certain geometric conditions, extending work of Volberg--Yuditskii. We also construct a weakly mixing Dirac operator with a…