Bounded solutions and absolute continuity of Sturm-Liouville operators (Q1206893)

The main theme of this paper is the study of relations between the asymptotic properties of the solutions of Sturm-Liouville equation \(\tau u:=-u''+ qu= \lambda u\) and the absolute continuity of the spectrum of the operator \(\tau\). The principal tool is the concept of subordinary/non-sequence subordinary of solutions. The main result is roughly speaking that if \(q=q_ +-q_ -\) \(q_ + \in L^ 1_{\text{loc}} (a,\infty)\), \(a \geq-\infty\); \(\sup_{x \geq c} \int^{x+1}_ xq_ -(t)dt<\infty\), \(c \in(a,\infty)\) and if all solutions of \(\tau u=\lambda u\) are bounded near \(+\infty\) for every \(\lambda \in S \subset \mathbb{R}^ 1\), then \(S\) is a subset of the essential spectrum of \(A\), the interior of \(S\) is a subset of the absolutely continuous spectrum of \(A\) and there are no imbedding eigenvalues in \(S\), (where \(A\) is a selfadjoint realization of \(\tau\) in \(L^ 2(a,\infty))\). After that the potentials of bounded variation, oscillating potentials, perturbed periodic potentials, quasiperiodic potentials and a class of potentials allowing \(q(t) \to-\infty\) as \(t \to \infty\) are treated with a good unification.