Trace formulae for graph Laplacians with applications to recovering matching conditions (Q2850437)

The authors consider graph Laplacians on finite compact metric graphs under the assumption that the matching conditions are of generalized \(\delta\) or \(\delta'\) type (with certain coefficients like in the classical third boundary condition). Using the boundary triples approach, they study spectral properties of these operators. In each of the two cases, they find an infinite series of trace formulas linking two different graph Laplacians with coinciding spectra. This result is applied to the problem of reconstructing the matching conditions to the given spectrum. The uniqueness in this problem is proved in some cases.