Differential equations in the spectral parameter for matrix differential operators (Q919170)

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Differential equations in the spectral parameter for matrix differential operators
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    Differential equations in the spectral parameter for matrix differential operators (English)
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    The author uses matrix Darboux transformations to generate a class of matrix differential operators L that have the following property: There exists a family \(\phi\) (x,k) of eigenfunctions of L also satisfying a differential equation in the spectral parameter k of the form \(B(k,\partial_ k)\phi =\theta (x)\phi\), where \(B(\partial_ k,k)\) is a differential operator and \(\theta\) is a non-constant function of x. The author also obtains Nth-order scalar operators which have this property. In section 5 the paper contains some interesting applications in the form of examples as well as the connection of these results with the ones obtained by \textit{J. J. Duistermaat} and \textit{F. A. Grünbaum} [Commun. Math. Phys. 103, 177-240 (1986; Zbl 0625.34007)]; \textit{F. A. Grünbaum} [Differential equations in the spectral parameter: The higher order case, in: Proc. Conf. Tomographic Inverse Problems, Montpellier (1986), pp. 307-322]; \textit{P. E. Wright} [Darboux transformations, algebraic varieties of Grassmann manifolds, commuting flows and bispectrality, Ph. D. Thesis, Univ. California, Berkeley (1987)].
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    bispectral operators
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    Bessel functions
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    Darboux transformations
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    matrix differential operators
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    eigenfunctions
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