The spectral asymptotics of a quadratic pencil of differential operators (Q1778158)

The authors study the distribution function of eigenvalues of the pencil \(L(\lambda)=A+\lambda B-\lambda^2 I\), where \(A\) is the self-adjoint differential operator induced in \(H=L_2(-\infty,+\infty)\) by the differential expression \(y^{(4)}+q(x)y\) with a positive function \(q(x)\), \(B\) is the self-adjoint operator induced in \(H\) by the expression \((i/2)((p(x)y'')' +(p(x)y')'')\), where \(p(x)\) is a twice continuously differentiable positive function. In this case, \(L(\lambda)\) is not a Keldysh pencil. In Section 1 of the paper, the asymptotic behavior of the Green function \(G(x,\xi,\lambda)\) of the pencil \(L(\lambda)\) for \(\lambda=i\mu\) as \(\mu\to+\infty\) is investigated. In Section 2, the Keldysh Tauberian theorem is used to derive an asymptotic formula for the distribution of eigenvalues of \(L(\lambda)\) from the representation of \(G(x,\xi,\lambda)\).