Transfer functions and local spectral uniqueness for Sturm-Liouville operators, canonical systems and strings

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Abstract: It is shown that transfer functions, which play a crucial role in M.G. Krein's study of inverse spectral problems, are a proper tool to formulate local spectral uniqueness conditions.


The paper mostly deals with the Sturm-Liouville operator on an interval \([0,l)\), with a self-adjoint boundary condition at one end. The author shows that the transfer function introduced by M.G. Krein is a powerful tool for proving local versions of the Borg-Marchenko uniqueness theorem, namely, for establishing conditions guaranteeing that two potential coincide on some sub-interval \([0,a]\) with \(a<l\). Particularly, the use of the transfer function simplifies the proof of B. Simon's local versions of the Borg-Marchenko theorem. The application of the transfer function to local spectral uniqueness for other equations, such as canonical systems and string equations, is also discussed.











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