On the coexistence of absolutely continuous and singular continuous components of the spectral measure for some Sturm--Liouville operators with square summable potential (Q1874499)

The main result states that, for each \(\gamma\in(0,1)\), there is a smooth, square summable function \(q\) on \((0,\infty)\) such that the singular continuous component of the spectrum of the Sturm-Liouville operator \(Hu=-u''+qu\), \(u(0)=0\) on \(L^2(0,\infty)\), has Hausdorff dimension \(\gamma \). The proof is quite involved and uses, among other methods, Wiener-Hopf equations.