On the uniform stability of recovering sine-type functions with asymptotically separated zeros (Q2133813)

The paper deals with the entire function of the form \[ \theta(z) = S(z) + \int_{-b}^b w(x) exp(izx) \, dx, \] where \(S(z) = P_N(z) S_0(z)\), \(P_N(z)\) is a polynomial of degree \(N\), \(S_0(z)\) is a sine-type function of exponential type \(b\) with asymptotically separated zeros, \(w \in L_2(-b,b)\). In particular, characteristic functions of various strongly regular differential operators and pencils of the first and the second orders have this form. The main result of the paper is the uniform stability of recovering the function \(\theta(z)\) from its zeros. The author proves that the dependence of \(\theta(z)\) on the sequence of its zeros is Lipschitz continuous with respect to a suitable metric on each ball of a finite radius. This result can be applied to investigate the uniform stability of inverse spectral problems for differential operators and pencils. In addition, the author obtains the asymptotics of the zeros and a representation of \(\theta(z)\) as an infinite product by its zeros. The latter results play an auxiliary role for the proof of the main theorem, but also have a separate significance and can be applied to the spectral theory of differential operators.