Title Inverse Spectral And Scattering Theory For The Half-Line Left-Definite Sturm-Liouville Problem
Authors Christer Bennewitz, B. M. Brown, R. Weikard
Alternative Location http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/0..., Restricted Access
Publication Siam Journal On Mathematical Analysis
Year 2008
Volume 40
Issue 5
Pages 2105 - 2131
Document type Article
Status Published
Quality controlled Yes
Language eng
Publisher Siam Publications
Abstract English The problem of integrating the Camassa-Holm equation leads to the scattering and inverse scattering problem for the Sturm-Liouville equation -u '' + 1/4 u = lambda wu, where w is a weight function which may change sign but where the left-hand side gives rise to a positive quadratic form so that one is led to a left-definite spectral problem. In this paper the spectral theory and a generalized Fourier transform associated with the equation -u '' + 1/4 u =lambda wu posed on a half-line are investigated. An inverse spectral theorem and an inverse scattering theorem are established. A crucial ingredient of the proofs of these results is a theorem of Paley-Wiener type which is shown to hold true. Additionally, the accumulation properties of eigenvalues are investigated.
Keywords Camassa-Holm equation, Sturm-Liouville, problems, left-definite, inverse scattering problems, inverse spectral problems,
ISBN/ISSN/Other ISSN: 0036-1410

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