Continuous spectrum and square-integrable solutions of differential operators with intermediate deficiency index (Q960545)

The authors study spectral properties of self-adjoint operators generated in the Hilbert space \(L^{2} ((a,b); w)\) by quasi - differential equations of the form \[ M y = \lambda w y \;\;on \;\;(a,b), \;- \infty < a < b \leq \infty, \] where \(w \in L_{loc} (a,b)\) and \(w > 0\) on \((a,b).\) The main result are the following type. If, for all \(\lambda\) in an open interval \(I\), there are \(d\) of linearly independent square-integrable solutions, then for every self-adjoint realization of the considered spectral problem the point spectrum is nowhere dense in \(I\), and also there is a self-adjoint realization of the problem, with strictly separated boundary conditions, which has no continuous spectrum in this interval.