Uniform basis property of root vector systems of Dirac operators (Q2146223)

The paper deals with the one-dimensional Dirac operator \(\mathcal{L}\) on the interval \([0, \pi]\) generated by the differential expression \[ \ell_P(y)=B\mathbf{y}'+P\mathbf{y}, \] where \(\mathbf{y}=\mathrm{col}(y_1(x),y_2(x))\), \[ B=\begin{pmatrix} -i&0\\ 0&i \end{pmatrix},\quad P(x)=\begin{pmatrix} p_1(x)&p_2(x)\\ p_3(x)&p_4(x) \end{pmatrix}, \] \(p_j\) (\(j=1,2,3,4\)) are complex-valued summable functions on the interval \([0,\pi]\), with the Birkhoff-regular boundary conditions \(U\). The authors prove uniform estimates for the Riesz constants of the root function systems of a strongly regular operator \(\mathcal{L}\), assuming that the boundary conditions \(U\) and the number \[ \int_0^\pi(p_1(x)-p_4(x))dx \] are fixed, and the potential \(P\) takes values from the ball \(B(0, R)\) of radius \(R\) in the space \(L_\chi\), \(\chi>1\). They succeed to select the system of root functions such that it consists of eigenfunctions of the operator \(\mathcal{L}\) apart from a finite set of root vectors such that their number can be estimated uniformly with respect to the ball \(\|P\|_\chi\le R\).