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Stability of the problem of recovering the Sturm–Liouville operator from the spectral function
V. A. Marchenko,
K. V. Maslov
Abstract:
We consider a differential operator
$\mathscr L=(h,q(x))$ generated by a Sturm-Liouville operation
$l[y]=-y''+q(x)y$ on the linear manifold of finite twice-differentiable functions
$y(x)$ satisfying the boundary condition
$y'(0)-hy(0)=0$. Let
$\rho(\mu)$ be the spectral function of this operator. From
$\rho(\mu)$, as is well known, we can recover the operator
$\mathscr L$, i.e. the number
$h$ and the function
$q(x)$. Let
$V_\alpha^A$ be the set of operators
$\mathscr L$ for which
$$
|h|\leqslant A,\qquad\int_0^x|q(t)|\,dt\leqslant\alpha(x)\quad(x<0<\infty).
$$
We now investigate how much information about the operator
$\mathscr L\in V_\alpha^A$ can be obtained if its spectral function
$\rho(\mu)$ is known only for values of
$\mu$ on a finite interval.
In the present article we obtain estimates for the difference in the potentials
$q_1(x)-q_2(x)$, in the boundary parameters
$h_1-h_2$ and in the solutions of the corresponding differential equations under the condition that the spectral functions of the two operators in
$V_\alpha^A$ coincide on a finite interval.
Bibliography: 7 titles.
UDC:
517.43
MSC: 34B24,
47E05,
34L05,
47G20,
45J05,
34Dxx Received: 10.10.1969