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A novel method for finding the eigenvalues of a Sturm-Liouville problem is developed. Following the minimalist approach the problem is transformed to a single first-order differential equation with appropriate boundary conditions. Although…
In this paper we consider the following Sturm-Liouville equation \[ \left\{ \begin{aligned} -(x^{2\alpha}u'(x))'+u(x)&=f(x) && \text{in } (0,1],\\ u(1)&=0 \end{aligned} \right. \] where $\alpha<1$ is a nonzero real number and $f$ belongs to…
This article considers the initial boundary value problem for the heat equation with the time-dependent Sturm-Liouville operator with singular potentials. To obtain a solution by the method of separation of variables, the problem is reduced…
This article deals with a special case of the Sturm-Liouville boundary value problem (BVP), an eigenvalue problem characterized by the Sturm-Liouville differential operator with unknown spectra and the associated eigenfunctions. By…
An inverse scattering method based on an auxiliary inverse Sturm-Liouville problem recently proposed by Horv\'ath and Apagyi [Mod. Phys. Lett. B 22, 2137 (2008)] is examined in various aspects and developed further to (re)construct…
The inverse problem for the Sturm- Liouville operator with complex periodic potential and discontinuous coefficients on the axis is studied. Main characteristics of the fundamental solutions are investigated, the spectrum of the operator is…
Sufficient conditions for the similarity of the operator $A := 1/r(x) (-d^2/dx^2 +q(x))$ with an indefinite weight $r(x)=(\sgn x)|r(x)|$ are obtained. These conditions are formulated in terms of Titchmarsh-Weyl $m$-coefficients. Sufficient…
We study two problems. The first one is the similarity problem for the indefinite Sturm-Liouville operator \[ A=-(\sgn\, x)\frac{d}{wdx}\frac{d}{rdx} \] acting in $L^2_{w}(-b,b)$. It is assumed that $w,r\in L^1_{\loc}(-b,b)$ are even and…
In this work a discontinuous boundary-value problem with retarded argument which contains spectral parameter in the transmission conditions at the point of discontinuity are investigated. We obtained asymptotic formulas for the eigenvalues…
Classical Sturm-Liouville problems of $q$-difference variables are extended for symmetric discrete functions such that the corresponding solutions preserve the orthogonality property. Some illustrative examples are given in this sense.
Consider the interior transmission problem arising in inverse boundary value problems for the diffusion equation with discontinuous diffusion coefficients. We prove the unique solvability of the interior transmission problem by constructing…
Some fractional and anomalous diffusions are driven by equations involving fractional derivatives in both time and space. Such diffusions are processes with randomly varying times. In representing the solutions to those diffusions, the…
The purpose of this paper is to further exemplify an approach to evolutionary problems originally developed in earlier works for a special case and later extended to more general evolutionary problems. We are here concerned with the $(1+1)$…
This paper deals with the discrete system being the finite-difference approximation of the Sturm-Liouville problem with frozen argument. The inverse problem theory is developed for this discrete system. We describe the two principal cases:…
This work is concerned with the Dirac points for the honeycomb lattice with impenetrable obstacles arranged periodically in a homogeneous medium. We consider both the Dirichlet and Neumann eigenvalue problems and prove the existence of…
In addition to being the eigenfunctions of the restricted Fourier operator, the angular spheroidal wave functions of the first kind of order zero and nonnegative integer characteristic exponents are the solutions of a singular self-adjoint…
In the present review we deal with the recently introduced method of spectral parameter power series (SPPS) and show how its application leads to an explicit form of the characteristic equation for different eigenvalue problems involving…
We establish the connection between Sturm-Liouville equations on time scales and Sturm--Liouville equations with measure-valued coefficients. Based on this connection we generalize several results for Sturm-Liouville equations on time…
We describe the necessary and sufficient conditions for two sequences {\mu_n}^\infty_n=0 and {a_n}^\infty_n=0 to be correspondingly the set of eigenvalues and the set of norming constants of a Sturm-Liouville problem with real summable…
We derive eigenvalue asymptotics for Sturm--Liouville operators with singular complex-valued potentials from the space $W^{\al-1}_{2}(0,1)$, $\al\in[0,1]$, and Dirichlet or Neumann--Dirichlet boundary conditions. We also give application of…