The inverse spectral problem for first order systems on the half line (Q4952500)

The authors study the first-order differential operator \(L\equiv B{1\over i}{d\over dx}+ Q(x)\), (on the half line \([0,\infty)\)) where \(B= \left|\begin{smallmatrix} B_1 & 0\\ 0 & B_2\end{smallmatrix}\right|\), \(B_1,B_2\in M(n,C)\) are selfadjoint positive definite matrices and \(Q: \mathbb{R}_+\to M(2n,c)\), \(\mathbb{R}_+:= [0,\infty)\), is a continuous selfadjoint off-diagonal matrix function. This operator subject to the boundary condition \(f_2(0)= Hf_1(0)\) with \(B_1= H^* B_2H\) generates a selfadjoint extension \(L_H\) of the minimal operator corresponding to \(Lf_1(0)\), \(f_2(0)\) denotes the first resp. last \(n\) components of the vector \(f(0)\). The main purpose of the paper is to investigate the inverse spectral problem for the operator \(L_H\), i.e., to find necessary and sufficient conditions for an \(n\times n\)-matrix function \(\sigma\) to be the spectral function of the boundary value problem. The results obtained are applied to show the existence of \(2n\times 2n\) Dirac systems \((B_1= B_2= I)\) with purely absolute continuous, purely singular continuous and discrete spectrum of multiplicity \(p\), where \(1\leq p\leq n\) is arbitrary. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1051.47001].