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We investigate recent claims concerning a new class of cosmic string solutions in the Weinberg-Salam model. They have the general form of previously discussed semi-local and electroweak strings, but are modified by the presence of a…

The inverse spectral problem for the second-order differential pencil with quadratic dependence on the spectral parameter is studied. We obtain sufficient conditions for the global solvability of the inverse problem, prove its local…

The authors study the spectral theory of self-adjoint operators that are subject to certain types of perturbations. An iterative introduction of infinitely many randomly coupled rank-one perturbations is one of our settings. Spectral…

We prove that the superlinear indefinite equation \begin{equation*} u" + a(t)u^{p} = 0, \end{equation*} where $p > 1$ and $a(t)$ is a $T$-periodic sign-changing function satisfying the (sharp) mean value condition $\int_{0}^{T} a(t)~\!dt <…

We consider the spectral structure of indefinite second order boundary-value problems on graphs. A variational formulation for such boundary-value problems on graphs is given and we obtain both full and half-range completeness results. This…

Let $L_0$ be a closed densely defined symmetric semi-bounded operator with nonzero defect indexes in a separable Hilbert space ${\cal H}$. With $L_0$ we associate a metric space $\Omega_{L_0}$ that is named a {\it wave spectrum} and…

We add an $S^1$ extra dimension (size $L$) to the well known $D=4$ static, spherically symmetric $Q$-balls and boson stars. We show that the resulting uniform horizonless boson strings possess a static zero-mode for a critical value of $L$.…

We generalize the conjectured connection between quantum spectral problems and topological strings to many local almost del Pezzo surfaces with arbitrary mass parameters. The conjecture uses perturbative information of the topological…

In this paper we consider the eigenvalue problem consisting of the equation -u" = \la r u, \quad \text{on $(-1,1)$}, where $r \in C^1[-1,1], \ r>0$ and $\la \in \R$, together with the multi-point boundary conditions u(\pm 1) =…

The operator of double differentiation on a finite interval with Robin boundary conditions perturbed by the composition of a Volterra convolution operator and the differentiation one is considered. We study the inverse problem of recovering…

In this article, we study the one-dimensional inverse problem of determining the memory kernel by the integral overdetermination condition for the direct problem of finding the velocity potential and the displacement of boundary points. A…

We carry out a gauge invariant analysis of certain perturbations of $D-2$-branes solutions of low energy string theories. We get generically a system of second order coupled differential equations, and show that only in very particular…

In this paper, the spectrum of the following fourth order problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \Delta^2 u+\nu u=-\lambda \Delta u &\text{in } D_1,\newline u=\partial_r u= 0 &\text{on } \partial D_1, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where…

We derive explicit expressions for the sum rules of the eigenvalues of inhomogeneous strings with arbitrary density and with different boundary conditions. We show that the sum rule of order $N$ may be obtained in terms of a diagrammatic…

This paper revisits the classical problem "Can we hear the density of a string?", which can be formulated as an inverse spectral problem for a Sturm-Liouville operator. Based on inverting a sequence of trace formulas, we propose a new…

We initiate the study of inverse source problems for quasilinear elliptic equations of the form \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \nabla \cdot (\gamma(x,u,\nabla u) \nabla u) = F & \text{in } \Omega, \\ u = f & \text{on } \partial\Omega,…

This paper deals with the Sturm-Liouville problem with singular potential of the Sobolev space $W_2^{-1}$ and polynomials of the spectral parameter in a boundary condition. We prove the uniform boundedness and the uniform stability for the…

Following Smale, we study simple symmetric mechanical systems of $n$ point particles in the plane. In particular, we address the question of the linear and spectral stability properties of relative equilibria, which are special solutions of…

An integrable polygon is one whose interior angles are fractions of $\pi$; that is to say of the form $\frac \pi n$ for positive integers $n$. We consider the Laplace spectrum on these polygons with the Dirichlet and Neumann boundary…

We study inverse spectral problems for ordinary differential equations with regular singularities on compact star-type graphs when differential equations have different orders on diferent edges. As the main spectral characteristics we…