An indefinite eigenvalue problem with eigenparameter in the two boundary conditions

DOI10.1155/S0161171298001082MaRDI QIDQ1273340zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Said F. M. Ibrahim

Publication date 9 September 1999

Published in International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/48216

zbMATH Keywords

\(J\)-selfadjoint operatoreigenfunction expansioneigenvalue parameter in the boundary conditionseigenvalue problem for ODEindefinite eigenvalue problemKrein space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sturm-Liouville theory (34B24) Eigenfunctions, eigenfunction expansions, completeness of eigenfunctions of ordinary differential operators (34L10)

Review text

The following regular indefinite eigenvalue problem for a second-order ordinary differential equation with the eigenvalue parameter appearing in the boundary conditions is considered: \[ {1\over{r(x)}}[-(pu')'+qu]=\lambda u, \quad x\in [a,b], \] \[ \alpha_1u(a)-\alpha_2(pu')(a)=\lambda\alpha_3u(a)-\alpha_4(pu')(a), \] \[ \beta_1u(b)-\beta_2(pu')(b)=\lambda \beta_3u(b)-\beta_4(pu')(b). \] Both, the weight function \(r(x)\) and the potential function \(q(x)\) change sign on \([a,b]\) which causes the problem to be indefinite. The author proves that this problem is equivalent to the eigenvalue problem for a \(J\)-selfadjoint operator \(A\) in a suitable Krein space \(H\). He proves that \(A\) in \(H\) is unbounded from above and bounded from below and has a compact resolvent. The main result of the paper is an eigenfunction expansion theorem.

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