Spectral properties of Sturm-Liouville operators with local interactions on a discrete set (Q741523)

This paper deals with the spectral properties of the Sturm-Liouville operators generated by the differential expression \[ L(y) :=\frac{1}{w(x)}(-(p(x)y^{\prime })^{\prime }+v(x)y) \] with singular coefficients \(v(x)\) in the sense of distributions. In particular, the authors study the operators with \(\delta \)-type point interactions at the centers \(x_{k}\) on the positive half line in terms of energy forms. Necessary and sufficient conditions and also simple sufficient conditions are given for the spectrum of the operators to be discrete. The authors also provide sufficient conditions on the stability of the continuous spectrum.