Inequalities and eigenvalues of Sturm-Liouville problems near a singular boundary

Computing Eigenvalues of Singular Sturm-Liouville Problems

We describe a new algorithm to compute the eigenvalues of singular Sturm-Liouville problems with separated self-adjoint boundary conditions for both the limit-circle nonoscillatory and oscillatory cases. Also described is a numerical code implementing this algorithm and how it compares with SLEIGN. The latter is the only effective general purpose software available for the computation of the ei...

Inequalities among eigenvalues of Sturm-Liouville problems

Eigenvalues of Sturm-liouville Problems with Discontinuous Boundary Conditions

For classical regular two-point self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville problems (SLP) the dependence of the eigenvalues on the boundary conditions is well understood because of some surprisingly recent results. Recently there has been a lot of interest in problems with discontinuous boundary conditions. Such conditions are known by various names including transmission conditions, interface conditions, po...

Dependence of eigenvalues of Sturm-Liouville problems

The eigenvalues of Sturm-Liouville (SL) problems depend not only continuously but smoothly on boundary points. The derivative of the nth eigenvalue as a function of an endpoint satisfies a first order differential equation. This for arbitrary (separated or coupled) self-adjoint regular boundary conditions. In addition, as the length of the interval shrinks to zero all higher eigenvalues march o...

Sturm-Liouville Problems with Singular Non-Selfadjoint Boundary Conditions

Singular boundary conditions are formulated for non-selfadjoint Sturm-Liouville problems which are limitcircle in a very general sense. The characteristic determinant is constructed and it is shown that it can be used to extend the Birkhoff theory for so called ‘Birkhoff regular boundary conditions’ to the singular case. This is illustrated for a class of singular Birkhoff-regular problems; in ...