Spectral problems of a class of non-self-adjoint one-dimensional Schrödinger operators (Q465232)

The author studies the one-dimensional Schrödinger operator \[ -y''(x)+q(x)y(x) \] on \(L^2(-\infty,\infty),\) with complex-valued periodic potential \(q\in L^1(0,1)\) and \(q_n =0\) for \(n=0,-1,-2,\dots\), where \(q_n\) are the Fourier coefficients of \(q\) with respect to the system \(\{e^{i2\pi nx}\}.\) It is proved that the Bloch eigenvalues are \((2\pi n+t)^2\) for \(n\in\mathbb{Z}\), \(t\in\mathbb{C}\), and explicit formulas for the Bloch functions are given. Moreover, the inverse problem for this operator is considered as well.