Non-selfadjoint Sturm-Liouville operators with multiple spectra (Q4429638)

Th author deals with inverse problems for Sturm-Liouville operators with complex-valued potentials. Let us consider the Sturm-Liouville operator \[ H=-\frac{d^{2}}{dx^{2}}+q(x),\qquad q(x)\in L^{2}((0,\pi);\mathbb{C}), \tag{*} \] subject to one of the following boundary conditions D) \(y(0)=y(\pi)=0\); N) \(y(0)=y^{\prime}(\pi)=0\); P) \(y(0)=y(\pi)\), \(y^{\prime}(0)=y^{\prime}(\pi)\); AP) \(y(0)=-y(\pi),\quad y^{\prime}(0)=-y^{\prime}(\pi)\). The author obtains the following assertions. (i) For every finite set \({\mathcal D}=\{\lambda_{1},\dots,\lambda_{n}\}\) of pairwise distinct points in \(\mathbb{C}\) and for every set \(M({\mathcal D})=\{m_{1},\dots, m_{n}\}\) of positive integers, there exists a Sturm-Liouville operator \((*)\) for which \(\{\lambda_{1},\dots,\lambda_{n}\}\) are points of the Dirichlet spectrum with (algebraic) multiplicities equal to respective numbers from \(M({\mathcal D})\). (ii) For every finite set \({\mathcal P}=\{\lambda_{1}^{+},\dots,\lambda_{n}^{+}\}\) of pairwise distinct points in \(\mathbb{C}\) and for every set \(M({\mathcal P})=\{m_{1},\dots,m_{n}\}\) of positive integers, there exists a Sturm-Liouville operator \((*)\) for which \(\{\lambda_{1}^{+},\dots, \lambda_{n}^{+}\}\) are points of the periodic spectrum with (algebraic) multiplicities equal to respective numbers from \(M({\mathcal P})\). A similar statement is valid for an anti-periodic spectrum. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1013.00027].