Hill's potentials in weighted Sobolev spaces and their spectral gaps (Q621299)

The author considers the Schrödinger operator \[ L=-\frac{d^{2}}{dx^{2}}+q \] generated in the interval \([0,1]\) by periodic or anti-periodic boundary conditions and depending on an \(L^{2}\)-potential \(q\). He investigates the forward problem of controlling the gap lengths of a potential in terms of its regularity and recovers the regularity of a potential from the asymptotic behavior of its gap lengths. The author gives a new, short proof of some facts relating the gap lengths of the spectrum of the operator \(L\). The proof does not employ any conformal mappings, trace formula, asymptotic expansions, iterative arguments, or other convolutions. This paper gives an approach to the question of regularity of the potential and the inverse problem for Hill's operator, using weighted Banach space norms and the implicit function theorem.