Determination of an impulsive diffusion operator from interior spectral data (Q1988330)

A 2001 result of \textit{K. Mochizuki} and \textit{I. Trooshin} [J. Inverse Ill-Posed Probl. 9, No. 4, 425--433 (2001; Zbl 1035.34008)] states that the potential of a one-dimensional Schrödinger operator on a finite interval is uniquely determined by its eigenvalues and the values of the logarithmic derivative of its eigenfunctions at the midpoint of the interval. In the paper under review the authors attempt to generalize this result to differential pencils on the half-line. Reviewer's remarks: The result is certainly not true due to the simple observation that in the half-line case there may be no eigenvalues at all. An easily identifiable problem with the ``proof'' is that a nonzero analytic function may also satisfy the bound $O \left( e^{-C |\Im \rho|} \right)$ on the whole closed upper half-plane for some positive $C$, an obvious choice being $\phi = e^{i C \rho}$. It is also mysterious to this reviewer why the authors write $|\Im \rho|$ when $\rho$ never leaves the upper half-plane and what they mean by an application of the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma near the end of Section 3.