Abstract:
For the Sturm–Liouville equation of the standard form, we examine properties of the transfer matrix $\hat{C}$ along a closed path starting at a point $z_0$ and going counterclockwise around the boundary of a convex domain containing exactly one singular point $z_s$ of the potential (the boundary of the domain does not contain singular points). The main attention is paid to the study of singular points that are not branching points; we prove that in this case, if the trace of the matrix $\hat{C}$ is not equal to two, then all its elements are entire functions of the spectral parameter of order $1/2$ and type $2|z_0 - z_s|$ with a trigonometric indicator.
Keywords:Sturm–Liouville equations on the complex plane, singular points, transfer matrix