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Boundary Data Maps and Krein's Resolvent Formula for Sturm-Liouville Operators on a Finite Interval
Operators and Matrices
  • Stephen L. Clark, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Fritz Gesztesy
  • Roger Nichols
  • Maxim Zinchenko
Abstract

We continue the study of boundary data maps, that is, generalizations of spectral parameter dependent Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps for (three-coefficient) Sturm-Liouville operators on the finite interval (a,b), to more general boundary conditions, began in [8] and [17]. While these earlier studies of boundary data maps focused on the case of general separated boundary conditions at a and b, the present work develops a unified treatment for all possible self-adjoint boundary conditions (i.e., separated as well as non-separated ones). In the course of this paper we describe the connections with Krein's resolvent formula for self-adjoint extensions of the underlying minimal Sturm-Liouville operator (parametrized in terms of boundary conditions), with some emphasis on the Krein extension, develop the basic trace formulas for resolvent differences of self-adjoint extensions, especially, in terms of the associated spectral shift functions, and describe the connections between various parametrizations of all self-adjoint extensions, including the precise relation to von Neumann's basic parametrization in terms of unitary maps between deficiency subspaces.

Department(s)
Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords and Phrases
  • Boundary data maps,
  • Krein-type resolvent formulas,
  • Parametrizations of self-adjoint extensions,
  • Perturbation determinants,
  • Self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville operators on a finite interval,
  • Spectral shift functions
Document Type
Article - Journal
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Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2014 Element D.O.O., All rights reserved.
Publication Date
3-1-2014
Publication Date
01 Mar 2014
Citation Information
Stephen L. Clark, Fritz Gesztesy, Roger Nichols and Maxim Zinchenko. "Boundary Data Maps and Krein's Resolvent Formula for Sturm-Liouville Operators on a Finite Interval" Operators and Matrices Vol. 8 Iss. 1 (2014) p. 1 - 71 ISSN: 1846-3886
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/stephen_clark/60/