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Compactness of Floquet isospectral sets for the matrix Hill's equation

Author(s): Robert Carlson
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), 2933-2941.
MSC (2000): Primary 34A55; Secondary 34L40
Posted: April 7, 2000
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Abstract:

Let $\mathcal{M}(Q)$ denote the set of self adjoint $K \times K$ potentials for the matrix Hill's equation having the same Floquet multipliers as $-D^2 + Q$. Elementary methods are used to show that $\mathcal{M}(Q)$ has compact closure in the space of continuous matrix valued functions.


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Additional Information:

Robert Carlson
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80933
Email: carlson@castle.uccs.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-00-05634-3
PII: S 0002-9939(00)05634-3
Keywords: Hill's equation, inverse spectral theory, KdV
Received by editor(s): November 10, 1998
Posted: April 7, 2000
Communicated by: Hal L. Smith
Copyright of article: Copyright 2000, American Mathematical Society


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