Inverse spectral problems for the generalized Robin-Regge problem with complex coefficients (Q2219928)

The author considers the generalized Robin-Regge problem \(L(q, h, \alpha , \beta )\) : \[ -y''(x)+q(x)y(x) = \lambda ^2y(x), \ y' (0) - hy(0) = 0, \ y'(a) + (i\lambda \alpha + \beta )y(a) = 0, \] where \(\lambda\) is the spectral parameter, \(q \in L^2 (0, a)\) is the complex-valued potential, \(h, \beta \in \mathbb{C}\) and \(\alpha > 0\). The direct and inverse spectral problem are investigated. The direct problem to find the asymptotic representation is done as in [\textit{M. Möller} and \textit{V. Pivovarchik}, Electron. J. Differ. Equ. 2017, Paper No. 287, 18 p. (2017; Zbl 1386.34036)], where the case of real \(q\), \(h\), \(\beta \) has been studied. The solution of the inverse problem, however, needs a different approach due to the fact that the parameters are complex valued. In addition to the direct and inverse problem, also local invertibility and stability is investigated. The eigenvalues are indexed by \(Z=\mathbb{Z}\) when \(\alpha >1\) and \(Z=\mathbb{Z}\setminus \{0\}\) when \(0<\alpha <1\). Then let \(Z_0=\mathbb{Z}\setminus \{k_0\}\) for an arbitrarily chosen integer \(k_0\in Z\). Theorem. Let \((\lambda _n)_{n\in Z}\) be the eigenvalues of a problem \(L(q, h, \alpha , \beta )\) as above, with \(\alpha \ne 1\). Then there exists \(\varepsilon > 0\) such that for any sequence \((\tilde \lambda _n)_{n\in Z_0}\) satisfying \[\Lambda :=\sqrt{\sum _{n\in Z_0}n^2 |\lambda _n - \tilde\lambda _n |^2}\le \varepsilon\] there exist unique \(\tilde q \in L^2(0, a)\) and \(\tilde h\in \mathbb{C}\) such that \((\tilde \lambda _n)_{n\in Z}\) are eigenvalues of the problem \(L(\tilde q, \tilde h, \alpha , \beta )\). Moreover, \(\|\tilde q - q\|_{L^2} < C \Lambda ^{1/p}\), \(|\tilde h - h| < C \Lambda ^{1/p}\), where \(C > 0\) depends only on \(q\), \(h\), \(\alpha \), \(\beta \); \(p \ge 1\) depends only on \(q\) and \(h\). In particular, \(p = 1\) when \(q\) and \(h\) are real.