Regular and singular Sturm-Liouville problems (SLP) are studied including the continuous and differentiable dependence of eigenvalues on the problem. Also initial value problems (IVP) are considered for the SL equation and for general first order systems.

We study the relationship between the eigenvalues of separated self-adjoint boundary conditions and coupled self-adjoint conditions. Given an arbitrary real coupled boundary condition determined by a coupling matrix K we construct a one parameter family of separated conditions and show that all the eigenvalues for K and −K are extrema of the eigencurves of this family. This characterization mak...

In recent years several high quality Sturm-Liouville software packages have been written (e.g., SLEDGE, SLEIGN, the NAG routine SL02FM). All excel at providing eigenfunction estimates at a nite set of points but only the NAG routine provides interpolation capability, and this by a fairly crude method (especially when compared with the sophistication of its eigenvalue solver). We describe an acc...

This paper examines and develops matrix methods to approximate the eigenvalues of a fourth order Sturm-Liouville problem subjected to a kind of fixed boundary conditions, furthermore, it extends the matrix methods for a kind of general boundary conditions. The idea of the methods comes from finite difference and Numerov’s method as well as boundary value methods for second order regular Sturm-L...

We nd the adjoint of the Askey-Wilson divided di erence operator with respect to the inner product on L 2 ( 1; 1; (1 x 2 ) 1=2 dx) de ned as a Cauchy principal value and show that the Askey-Wilson polynomials are solutions of a q-Sturm-Liouville problem. From these facts we deduce various properties of the polynomials in a simple and straightforward way. We also provide an operator theoretic de...

A higher order scheme is presented for the optimal correction method previously proposed by the authors for computing the 3-D position of corresponding points in a stereo image pair, and this method is compared with the Hartley-Sturm method. It is pointed out that the epipole is a singularity of the Harley-Sturm method, while the our method has no singularity. It is confirmed by numerical simul...

The measure algebras of the title are those which are also hypergroups with some regularity conditions, Examples include the convolutions associated with Jacobi polynomial series and Fourier Bessel series, It is shown here that there is a one-to-one correspondence between these hypergroups and a class of Sturm-Liouville problems which have the characters of the hypergroup as eigenfunctions, The...

In this article we establish an oscillation theorem for second order Sturm-Liouville difference equations with general nonlinear dependence on the spectral parameter l. This nonlinear dependence on l is allowed both in the leading coefficient and in the potential. We extend the traditional notions of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions to this more general setting. Our main result generalizes the re...

We develop an analog of classical oscillation theory for Sturm– Liouville operators which, rather than measuring the spectrum of one single operator, measures the difference between the spectra of two different operators. This is done by replacing zeros of solutions of one operator by weighted zeros of Wronskians of solutions of two different operators. In particular, we show that a Sturm-type ...

It is well known that the two spectra {λn} and {μn} uniquely determine the potential function q (r) in a Sturm-Liouville equation defined on the unit interval having the singularity type ( ) 2 1 2 r r + +   (where  is a integer) at the point zero. In this work, we give the solution of the inverse problem on two partially noncoincide spectra for the Sturm-Liouville equation with the peculiari...