Reconstruction of the Sturm-Liouville differential operators with discontinuity conditions and a constant delay (Q2195665)

The following boundary value problems \(L_j\), \(j=0,1,\) are considered: \[ -y''(x)+q(x)y(x-a)=\lambda y(x),\; 0<x<\pi,\; y(0)=y^{(j)}(\pi)=0, \] \[ y(\pi/2+0)=by(\pi/2-0),\; y'(\pi/2+0)=b^{-1}y'(\pi/2-0)+cy(\pi/2-0), \] where \(a\in(\pi/2,\pi).\) The inverse problem is studied which consists in constructing the potential \(q(x)\), provided that the specta of \(L_j\) are known. An algorithm is provided for solving this linear inverse problem. The authors do not cite the most important works devoted to this class of inverse problems, namely, [\textit{N. Bondarenko} and \textit{V. Yurko}, Appl. Math. Lett. 83, 140--144 (2018; Zbl 1489.34105); \textit{N. P. Bondarenko} and \textit{V. A. Yurko}, Math. Methods Appl. Sci. 41, No. 17, 8350--8354 (2018; Zbl 1469.34034); \textit{S. A. Buterin} and \textit{V. A. Yurko}, Anal. Math. Phys. 9, No. 1, 17--27 (2019; Zbl 1423.34087); \textit{V. Yurko}, Differ. Equ. 55, No. 4, 510--514 (2019; Zbl 1466.34065); translation from Differ. Uravn. 55, No. 4, 524--528 (2019); Result. Math. 74, No. 2, Paper No. 71, 10 p. (2019; Zbl 1465.34085)].