Green's functions for Sturm-Liouville problems on directed tree graphs

Abstract: Let

G a m m a

be geometric tree graph with

m

edges and consider the second order Sturm-Liouville operator

L [u] = (- p u^{'})^{'} + q u

acting on functions that are continuous on all of

G a m m a

, and twice continuously differentiable in the interior of each edge. The functions

p

and

q

are assumed uniformly continuous on each edge, and

p

strictly positive on

G a m m a

. The problem is to find a solution

f : G a m m a o R

to the problem

L [f] = h

with

2 m

additional conditions at the nodes of

G a m m a

. These node conditions include continuity at internal nodes, and jump conditions on the derivatives of

f

with respect to a positive measure

h o

. Node conditions are given in the form of linear functionals

l_{1}, ..., l_{2 m}

acting on the space of admissible functions. A novel formula is given for the Green's function

G : G a m m a i m e s G a m m a o R

associated to this problem. Namely, the solution to the semi-homogenous problem

L [f] = h

,

l_{i} [f] = 0

for

i = 1, ..., 2 m

is given by

f (x) = i n t_{G} a m m a G (x, y) h (y) u d h o

.

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