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Funktsional. Anal. i Prilozhen., 2024 Volume 58, Issue 4, Pages 142–147 (Mi faa4178)

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On the differential operators of odd order with $\mathrm{PT}$-symmetric periodic matrix coefficients

Oktay Veliev

Dogus University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the spectrum of the differential operator $T$ generated by an ordinary differential expression of order $n$ with $\mathrm{PT}$-symmertic periodic $m\times m$ matrix coefficients. We prove that if $m$ and $n$ are odd numbers, then the spectrum of $T$ contains all the real line. Note that in standard quantum theory, observable systems must be Hermitian operators, so as to ensure that the spectrum is real. Research on $\mathrm{PT}$-symmetric quantum theory is based on the observation that the spectrum of a $\mathrm{PT}$-symmetric non-self-adjoint operator can contain real numbers. In this paper, we discover a large class of $\mathrm{PT}$-symmetric operators whose spectrum contains all real axes. Moreover, the proof is very short.

Keywords: differential operator, $\mathrm{PT}$-symmetric coefficients, real spectrum.

MSC: 34L05, 34L20

Received: 20.11.2023
Revised: 05.02.2024
Accepted: 12.02.2024

DOI: 10.4213/faa4178


 English version:
Functional Analysis and Its Applications, 2024, 58:4, 454–457

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