Inverse scattering on the half-line for a first-order system with a general boundary condition (Q2407044)

The author studies the inverse scattering problem (ISP) on the positive semiaxis for the \(2n\) dimensional system of differential equations \[ y'(x)+Q(x)y(x)=\lambda \sigma y(x). \] Here, \(Q\) is a matrix having a triangular structure and which entries have an exponential decay and \(\sigma\) is a diagonal matrix so that the first \(n\) entries on the diagonal are negative (increasingly ordered) and the other ones are positive (also increasingly ordered). One shows that the coefficients of the matrix \(Q\) are uniquely determined if one knows the scattering matrices on the half-line which correspond to two boundary conditions. This result is obtained from an uniqueness result of the ISP on the whole line. Pertinent comments on related problems are made.