The spectrum of self-adjoint extensions associated with exceptional Laguerre differential expressions (Q6146941)

Summary: Exceptional Laguerre-type differential expressions form an infinite class of Schrödinger operators having rational potentials and one limit-circle endpoint. In this manuscript, the spectrum of all self-adjoint extensions for a general exceptional Laguerre-type differential expression is given in terms of the Darboux transformations which relate the expression to the classical Laguerre differential expression. The spectrum is extracted from an explicit Weyl \(m\)-function, up to a sign. The construction relies primarily on two tools: boundary triples, which parameterize the self-adjoint extensions and produce the Weyl \(m\)-functions, and manipulations of Maya diagrams and partitions, which classify the seed functions defining the relevant Darboux transforms. Several examples are presented.