Numerical solutions of the spectral problem for arbitrary self-adjoint extensions of the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation (Q2840397)

The authors deal with the eigenvalue problem of selfadjoint extensions associated to a one-dimensional Schrödinger operator. The key observation is the fact that these self-adjoint extensions are in one-to-one correspondence with unitary operators assigned to the boundary data. Using this technique the resulting mathematical problem can be solved with a finite element method, where an appropriate basis of boundary functions is introduced to handle the boundary conditions. Then stability and convergence are shown for the proposed numerical algorithm. Finally, numerical computations including a lot of physically relevant boundary conditions are presented.