Eigenvalues of Sturm-Liouville problems and the zeros of entire functions of sine type (Q2879552)

The main result of this paper proves that the Dirichlet and respectively Dirichlet-Robin eigenvalues of the canonical Sturm-Liouville operator with coefficient \(q\in L_{\mathbb{R}}^2(0, a)\) (and boundary parameter \(\alpha \in \mathbb{R}\) for the Dirichlet-Robin case) are in relationship with the zeros of some entire functions of sine type. As a corollary of this result, two sets of sine functions are generated and they are shown to be Riesz bases of the space \(L^2(0, a)\).