Spectral analysis of family of singular non-self-adjoint differential operators of even order (Q2465807)

The paper is concerned with spectral properties of the family of differential operators defined by differential expressions of the form \[ l_{\lambda} (y) = L_{0} y + L_{1} (\lambda) y, \] where \[ L_{0} = \sum_{j = 0}^{2n} q_{j} \biggl( - i \frac{d}{d x}\biggl)^{2n - j}, \;\;L_{1} (\lambda) = \sum_{j = 2}^{2n} P_{j} (x,\lambda) \biggl( - i \frac{d}{d x}\biggl)^{2n - j}, \] where \(q_{j}\in\mathbb C,\;j = 0,\dots,2n; \;q_{0} = 1,\;q_{1} = 0\), and \[ P_{j} (x,\lambda) = \lambda^{j - 1} \;p_{j1} (x) + \dots + p_{jj}, \] with complex-valued functions \(p_{j k},\;k = 1,\dots,j\); \(j= 2,\dots,2n\). It is assumed that \[ (1 + x^{2})^{r} \;p_{j k} (x) \in L_{2}(-\infty,\infty), \] with \(r\) being the highest multiplicity of the roots of the equation \(p'(\mu) = 0\), and \[ p(\mu) = \mu^{2n} + q_{1} \mu^{2n - 1} + \dots + q_{2n - 1} \mu + q_{2n}. \] The paper extends the author's previous results obtained in [\textit{F.\,G.\thinspace Maksudov} and \textit{E.\,E.\thinspace Pashaeva}, in: Spectral theory of operators 3, Collect.\ Artic., Baku 1980, 33--101 (1980; Zbl 0544.47016); Spektr.\ Teor.\ Oper.\ 5, 145--151 (1984; Zbl 0626.47048); see also \textit{R.\,R.\,D.\thinspace Kemp}, Can.\ J.\ Math.\ 12, 641--659 (1960; Zbl 0100.29505)].