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Spectral Theory of Ordinary Differential Operators

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Abstract These notes will be useful and of interest to mathematicians and physicists active in research as well as for students with some knowledge of the abstract theory of operators in Hilbert spaces. They g...ive a complete spectral theory for ordinary differential expressions of arbitrary order n operating on -valued functions existence and construction of self-adjoint realizations via boundary conditions, determination and study of general properties of the resolvent, spectral representation and spectral resolution. Special attention is paid to the question of separated boundary conditions, spectral multiplicity and absolutely continuous spectrum. For the case nm=2 (Sturm-Liouville operators and Dirac systems) the classical theory of Weyl-Titchmarch is included. Oscillation theory for Sturm-Liouville operators and Dirac systems is developed and applied to the study of the essential and absolutely continuous spectrum. The results are illustrated by the explicit solution of a number of particular problems including the spectral theory one partical Schrödinger and Dirac operators with spherically symmetric potentials. The methods of proof are functionally analytic wherever possible.show more
Table of Contents Formally self-adjoint differential expressions
Appendix to section 1: The separation of the Dirac operator
Fundamental properties and general assumptions
Appendix to section 2: Proof of the Lagrange identity for n>2
The minimal operator and the maximal operator
Deficiency indices and self-adjoint extensions of T0
The solutions of the inhomogeneous differential equation (?-?)u=f; Weyl's alternative
Limit point-limit circle criteria
Appendix to section 6: Semi-boundedness of Sturm-Liouville type operators
The resolvents of self-adjoint extensions of T0
The spectral representation of self-adjoint extensions of T0
Computation of the spectral matrix ?
Special properties of the spectral representation, spectral multiplicities
L2-solutions and essential spectrum
Differential operators with periodic coefficients
Appendix to section 12: Operators with periodic coefficients on the half-line
Oscillation theory for regular Sturm-Liouville operators
Oscillation theory for singular Sturm-Liouville operators
Essential spectrum and absolutely continuous spectrum of Sturm-Liouville operators
Oscillation theory for Dirac systems, essential spectrum and absolutely continuous spectrum
Some explicitly solvable proble
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