scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2051040

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Authors E. D. Belokolos, Fritz Gesztesy, K. A. Makarov, Lev A. Sakhnovich

Publication date 7 March 2004

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0201019

zbMATH Keywords

inverse spectral theorySchrödinger operator on the linespectral gap

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems involving ordinary differential equations (34A55) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) General theory of ordinary differential operators (47E05)

Review text

Consider a Schrödinger operator \(h = -d^2/dx^2 + q\) on the real line with a real-valued potential \(q \in L_{1,\text{loc}}(\mathbb R)\). \textit{G. Borg}'s theorem [Acta Math. 78, 1--96 (1946; Zbl 0063.00523)] states that if \(h\) is periodic and has spectrum equal to \([E_0, \infty)\), then \(q(x)=E_0\) a.e. \textit{H. Hochstadt}'s theorem [Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal. 19, 353--362 (1965; Zbl 0128.31201)] is the analogue for a Schrödinger operator having exactly one gap. In the latter case, the potential can be expressed in terms of an elliptic Weierstrass function. The authors generalise both results to matrix-valued (not necessarily periodic) Schrödinger operators \(H := -\text{Id}2/dx^2 + Q\) where \(Q=Q^* \in L_{1,\text{loc}}(\mathbb R)^{m \times m}\). As has already been recognised in [\textit{S. Clark, F. Gesztesy, H. Holden} and \textit{B. M. Levitan}, J. Differ. Eq. 167, 181--210 (2000; Zbl 0970.34073)], the key ingredient (besides \(Q=Q^*\) and the spectrum of \(H\) having no resp.\ exactly one gap) is not the periodicity but the fact that \(Q\) is reflectionless. This condition is more general than periodicity and can be expressed via Weyl-Titchmarsh matrices [cf., e.g., \textit{F. Gesztesy} and \textit{E. Tsekanovskii}, Math. Nachr. 218, 61--138 (2000; Zbl 0961.30027) or \textit{S. Kotani} and \textit{B. Simon}, Commun. Math. Phys. 119, 403--429 (1988; Zbl 0656.60068)]. The proof of the main result consists of two steps: First the authors show that a special class of matrix-valued Schrödinger operators \(H_\Sigma\) with prescribed spectrum \(\Sigma\) (having no gap resp.\ one gap) satisfies the conclusion of the main result. Then, in a second step, they prove that any reflectionless Schrödinger operator \(H\) is of the form \(H_\Sigma\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 1027.00022].

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