Recovering differential pencils with spectral boundary conditions and spectral jump conditions

Abstract

Abstract In this work, we discuss the inverse problem for second order differential pencils with boundary and jump conditions dependent on the spectral parameter. We establish the following uniqueness theorems: ( i ) $(i)$ the potentials q k ( x ) $q_{k}(x)$ and boundary conditions of such a problem can be uniquely established by some information on eigenfunctions at some internal point b ∈ ( π 2 , π ) $b\in (\frac{\pi }{2},\pi )$ and parts of two spectra; ( i i ) $(ii)$ if one boundary condition and the potentials q k ( x ) $q_{k}(x)$ are prescribed on the interval [ π / 2 ( 1 − α ) , π ] $[\pi /2(1-\alpha ),\pi ]$ for some α ∈ ( 0 , 1 ) $\alpha \in (0, 1)$ , then parts of spectra S ⊆ σ ( L ) $S\subseteq \sigma (L)$ are enough to determine the potentials q k ( x ) $q_{k}(x)$ on the whole interval [ 0 , π ] $[0, \pi ]$ and another boundary condition.

Keywords

• Inverse problem
• Differential pencil
• Spectral boundary condition
• Spectral jump condition