This book provides a detailed treatment of the various facets of modern Sturm-Liouville theory, including such topics as Weyl:ndash;Titchmarsh theory, classical, renormalized, and perturbative oscillation theory, boundary data maps, traces and determinants for Sturm-Liouville operators, strongly singular Sturm–Liouville differential operators, generalized boundary values, and Sturm-Liouville operators with distributional coefficients. To illustrate the theory, the book develops an array of examples from Floquet theory to short-range scattering theory, higher-order KdV trace relations, elliptic and algebro-geometric finite gap potentials, reflectionless potentials and the Sodin-Yuditskii class, as well as a detailed collection of singular examples, such as the Bessel, generalized Bessel, and Jacobi operators. A set of appendices contains background on the basics of linear operators and spectral theory in Hilbert spaces, Schatten-von Neumann classes of compact operators, self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators, including the Friedrichs and Krein-von Neumann extensions, boundary triplets for ODEs, Krein-type resolvent formulas, sesquilinear forms, Nevanlinna-Herglotz functions, and Bessel functions.
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Offering an in-depth exploration of modern Sturm-Liouville theory, the book examines Weyl–Titchmarsh and oscillation theories, boundary data maps, and operators with singular potentials. It showcases diverse examples from Floquet theory to scattering and provides essential appendices on spectral theory and operator extensions.
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- Introduction
- A bit of physical motivation
- Preliminaries on ODEs
- The regular problem on a compact interval $[a,b]\subset\mathbb{R}$
- The singular problem on $(a,b)\subseteq \mathbb{R}$
- The spectral function for a problem with a regular endpoint
- The 2 x 2 spectral matrix function in the presence of two singular interval endpoints for the problem on $(a,b)\subseteq\mathbb{R}$
- Classical oscillation theory, principal solutions, and nonprinicpal solutions
- Renormalized oscillation theory
- Perturbative oscillation criteria and perturbative Hardy-type inequalities
- Boundary data maps
- Spectral zeta functions and computing traces and determinants for Sturm-Liouville operators
- The singular problem on $(a,b)\subseteq\mathbb{R}$ revisited
- Four-coefficient Sturm-Liouville operators and distributional potential coefficients
- Epilogue: Applications to some partial differnetial equations of mathematical physics
- Basic facts on linear operators
- Basics of spectral theory
- Classes of bounded linear operators
- Extensions of symmetric operators
- Elements of sesquilinear forms
- Basics of Nevanlinna-Herglotz functions
- Bessel functions in a nutshell
- Bibliography
- Author index
- List of symbols
- Subject index
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781470476663
Publisert
2024-10-31
Utgiver
American Mathematical Society
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
927