Donoghue m-functions for singular Sturm--Liouville operators

DOI10.1090/SPMJ/1795arXiv2107.09832OpenAlexW3184279961MaRDI QIDQ6373363FDOQ6373363

Authors: Fritz Gesztesy, Lance L. Littlejohn, Roger Nichols, Mateusz Piorkowski, Jonathan Stanfill

Publication date: 20 July 2021

Abstract: Let

d o t A

be a densely defined, closed, symmetric operator in the complex, separable Hilbert space

m a t h c a l H

with equal deficiency indices and denote by

,

d i m, (m a t h c a l N_{i}) = k i n m a t h b b N c u p i n f t y

, the associated deficiency subspace of

d o t A

. If

A

denotes a self-adjoint extension of

d o t A

in

m a t h c a l H

, the Donoghue

m

-operator

M_{A, m a t h c a l N_{i}}^{D o} (, c d o t,)

in

m a t h c a l N_{i}

associated with the pair

(A, m a t h c a l N_{i})

is given by [ M_{A,mathcal{N}_i}^{Do}(z)=zI_{mathcal{N}_i} + (z^2+1) P_{mathcal{N}_i} (A - z I_{mathcal{H}})^{-1} P_{mathcal{N}_i} �igvert_{mathcal{N}_i},, quad zin mathbb{C} �ackslash mathbb{R}, ] with

I_{m a t h c a l N_{i}}

the identity operator in

m a t h c a l N_{i}

, and

P_{m a t h c a l N_{i}}

the orthogonal projection in

m a t h c a l H

onto

m a t h c a l N_{i}

. Assuming the standard local integrability hypotheses on the coefficients

p, q, r

, we study all self-adjoint realizations corresponding to the differential expression [ au=frac{1}{r(x)}left[-frac{d}{dx}p(x)frac{d}{dx} + q(x) ight] , ext{ for a.e.