Discontinuous Sturm-Liouville problems containing eigenparameter in the boundary conditions (Q2505403)

The authors consider the following discontinuous Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problems with eigenvalue parameters both in the equation and in one of the boundary conditions: \[ \tau u := -a(x)u^{\prime \prime} +q(x)u = \lambda u, x \in [-1, 0) \cup (0, 1] \] with the boundary conditions at \(x = \pm 1\) \[ L_1u := \alpha_1 u(-1) + \alpha_2 u'(-1) = 0; L_4 (\lambda)u := \lambda(\beta_1'u(1) - \beta_2'u'(1)) + ((\beta_1u(1) - \beta_2u'(1)) = 0, \] and the transition conditions \[ L_2u := \gamma_1u(-0) - \delta_1u(+0) = 0, L_3u := \gamma_2u'(-0) - \delta_2u'(+0) = 0, \] where \(a(x) = a_1^2 > 0\) for \(x \in [-1, 0)\), \(a(x) = a_2^2 > 0\) for \(x \in (0, 1]\); \(q(x)\) is a given real-valued function which is continuous in \([-1, 0]\) and in \([0, 1]\); \(\alpha_i, \beta_i, \beta_i', \gamma_i, \delta_i, i = 1, 2\), are real numbers with \(| \alpha_1 | + | \alpha_2 | \not = 0, | \beta_1' | + | \beta_2' | + | \beta_1 | + | \beta_2 | \not = 0, | \gamma_1 | + | \delta_1 | \not = 0, | \gamma_2 | + | \delta_2 | \not = 0\), and \(\beta_1' \beta_2 - \beta_1 \beta_2' > 0\). With an operator theoretic approach, some classical properties and asymptotic approximate formulae for eigenvalues and normalized eigenfunctions are obtained.