Completeness and non-completeness results for the set of products of solutions to differential equations (Q4339877)

A new method is developed for proving completeness of the set of products of solutions to a pair of Sturm-Liouville operators. The completeness of the set of products is reduced to uniqueness of the solution of a certain integral equation. Two new concrete results are obtained by this method. The notion of property C for pairs of differential operators, introduced by the first author, has found many applications to inverse problems [see \textit{A. G. Ramm}, Multidimensional inverse scattering problems, MIR, Moscow, 1994; Longman/Wiley, New York (1992; Zbl 0746.35056) (*)]. However, so far only one approach, developed in (*), was used for proving property C. It would be of interest to generalize the approach in the present paper to the multidimensional case. The basic difficulty is the lack of the theory of transformation operators in the multidimensional case.