Direct and inverse problems for the matrix Sturm-Liouville operator with general self-adjoint boundary conditions (Q2037673)

The author deals with direct and inverse problems for the matrix Sturm-Liouville equation \[ -Y''+Q(x)Y =\lambda Y, x\in(0,\pi) \] together with boundary conditions \[ T_1(Y^{[1]}(0)-H_1 Y (0)) -T_1^{\bot}Y (0) = 0, \] \[ T_2(Y^{[1]}(\pi)- H_2 Y (\pi)) - T_2^{\bot}Y(\pi) = 0. \] Here \(Y = [y_{j }(x)]^{m}_{j =1}\) is a vector function; \(\lambda\) is the spectral parameter; \(Q(x)\) is an \((m\times m)\) Hermitian matrix function with elements of class \(W_2^{-1}(0,\pi)\); \(T_j,T_j^\bot,H_j\in \mathbb{C}^{m\times m},T_j\) are orthogonal projection matrices, that is, \(T_j =T_j^\dagger =T_j^2,T_j^\bot =I-T_j\); \(I\) is the unit matrix in \(\mathbb{C}^{m\times m}\); \(H_j = H_j^\dagger = T_j H_j T_j, j = 1,2.\) Let us denote this operator by \(L\). The authors investigate properties of the eigenvalues and weight matrices of the problem \(L\) and study the inverse problem that consists in recovering the potential and the boundary condition coefficients of the problem \(L\) from the eigenvalues and weight matrices.