Self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville problems with discontinuous boundary conditions (Q2349230)

The authors study self-adjoint realizations of Sturm-Liouville problems with discontinuous boundary conditions (also known as transmission conditions, interface conditions, multi-point conditions or point interactions) at interior points of the interval by regarding them as a special case of the multi-interval theory developed by \textit{W. N. Everitt} and the second author in [Rocky Mt. J. Math. 16, 497--517 (1986; Zbl 0624.34020)]. This approach allows them to handle slightly more general kinds of discontinuity conditions than previous methods, as well as singular analogues of these regular conditions. The results are stated in great detail for the 2-interval case, with numerous special cases singled out explicitly. In addition, the illustrative example of the Legendre equation is considered on the interval \((-1,\infty)\) with a singular interface condition at the point \(1\).