A sub-density theorem of Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem with finitely many singularities (Q1746937)

The author studies the eigenvalue distribution for the problem \[ \begin{gathered} - y''(x) + p(x)y(x) = \lambda ^2 y(x),\quad 0 < x < \pi, \\ y(0,\lambda) = 0,\quad y'(0,\lambda) = 1, \quad y(\pi ,\lambda) = 0, \end{gathered} \] where \(p(x) = \sum_{m = 0}^M {p_m (x)} + r_M (x)\) with \(r_M (x) \in C^M [0,\pi ]\) has finitely many singularities. Most importantly \[ p_m (x) = \sum_k {c_{m,k} 1_{[x_{m,k,\infty)}}}(x)(x - x_{m,k} )^m /m!,\quad m \geq 1 \] \[ p_0 (x) = \sum_k {c_{0,k} 1_{[x_{0,k,\infty )}}}(x) \] where \(\{ x_{m,k} \} _{m,k} \in (0,\frac{\pi }{2})\) and \(\{ c_{m,k} \}_{m,k} \in\mathbb R\). The author proves an asymptotically periodical structure on this class of eigenvalues. The singularities of its potential function are contained explicitly in its eigenvalue asymptotics.