Inverse eigenvalue problems on directed graphs (Q4257574)

Given a finite directed graph \({\mathcal G}\) where each vertex has the same number of input and output edges and each edge has a positive weight (with the weights collected in a diagonal matrix \(W\)), the spectral properties of a derivative \(-iD\) and a Schrödinger operator \(-D^2-p\) associated with \({\mathcal G}\) with a unitary matrix \(T\) describing the propagation along each edge are studied. The eigenvalues of \(iD\) and \(-D^2\) turn out to be the zeros of the functions \(P(\lambda)=\det[\exp(-iW\lambda)-T]\) and \(Q(\lambda)=\det[\exp(-iW\lambda)-T][T^{-1}-\exp(iW\lambda)]\), respectively. First, \(P(\lambda)\) is represented as a Weierstrass-type infinite product. Then the inverse problem of determining the eigenvalues \(\mu_k\) of \(T\) from those of \(-D^2\) plus the weights is considered and proved to be generically uniquely solvable. Next, a trace formula is derived for the resolvent of the Schrödinger operator with real and sufficiently smooth potential \(p\). Finally, analyticity properties of the zeta function \(\zeta(s)=\sum_k \mu_k^s\) are studied and the compactness of the isospectral sets of potentials \(q\) for which \(\mu_k(q)\equiv\mu_k(p)\), is established.