On impulsive Sturm-Liouville operators with singularity and spectral parameter in boundary conditions (Q362501)

The authors study direct and inverse spectral problems for the Sturm-Liouville equation \[ -y'' +\frac{C}{x^\alpha}y +q(x) y =\lambda y,\quad x\in (0,\pi), \] subject to the following boundary conditions \[ y(0)=0,\quad (\alpha_1\lambda + \alpha_2)y(\pi) + (\beta_1\lambda + \beta_2)y'(\pi)=0, \] and also the jump condition at some fixed point \(a\in (\frac{\pi}{2},\pi)\) \[ y(a+)=\beta\, y(a-),\quad \beta\, y'(a+)= y'(a-). \] It is assumed that \(q=\overline{q}\in L^2(0,\pi)\), \(\alpha\in (1,\frac{3}{2})\), \(C\in\mathbb{R}\), \(\beta\in (0,1)\cup (1,+\infty)\), and \(\alpha_1\beta_2-\alpha_2\beta_1<0\). The main result of the paper is the uniqueness for the inverse spectral problem. Namely, the authors prove that the set of eigenvalues and the corresponding norming constants uniquely determine the coefficients of the spectral problem.