Spectral properties of the nonhomogeneous Klein-Gordon \(s\)-wave equations (Q1880962)

This paper deals with the eigenvalues and the spectral singularities of the nonhomogeneous boundary value problem in \(L^{2}({\mathbf R}_{+})\) \[ y^{\prime\prime}+(\lambda-p(x))^{2}y=f(x),\;x\in{\mathbf R}_{+},\quad \alpha y^{\prime}(0)-\beta y(0)=0,\tag{1} \] where \(p\) and \(f\) are complex-valued functions, \(p\) is continuously differentiable on \({\mathbf R}_{+}\), and \(\alpha,\beta\in{\mathbf C}\) with \(|\alpha|+|\beta|\neq 0\). The main result is as follows: Suppose that \(\sup_{x\in{\mathbf R}_{+}}|f(x)|\exp(\tau x^{1+\kappa})<\infty\) for some \(\tau>0\) and \(\kappa>0\), and that \(\lim_{x\to\infty}p(x)=0\) and \(\sup_{x\in{\mathbf R}_{+}}|p^{\prime}(x)|\exp(\epsilon x^{\gamma})<\infty\) for some \(\epsilon>0\) and \(\gamma\in [1/2,1)\). Then, the boundary value problem (1) has a finite number of eigenvalues and spectral singularities, and each of them is of finite multiplicity.