Determining the potential of a Sturm-Liouville operator from its Dirichlet and Neumann spectra. (Q701271)

The paper is concerned with the inverse spectral problem for the Sturm-Liouville operator on the interval \(\left[ 0,1\right] :\) given the Dirichlet and Neumann spectra of the Sturm-Liouville operator \(-\dfrac{d^{2} }{dx^{2}}+q\left( x\right) \) for a potential \(q\in C^{3}\left( \left[ 0,1 \right] \right) ,\) determine \(q.\) A generically uncountable family of potentials with the given joint spectra is obtained. The author applies the periodic theory to a periodic extension of \(q.\)