An inverse spectral problem for Sturm-Liouville operators with discontinuous coefficients

Carlson, Robert

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1994-1197532-5

An inverse spectral problem for Sturm-Liouville operators with discontinuous coefficients
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Abstract:

For generic Sturm-Liouville problems with piecewise constant leading coefficients, the leading coefficient can be determined up to a finite ambiguity from the eigenvalues of the problem.

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