Direct and Inverse Sturm-Liouville Problems: A Method of Solution (Frontiers in Mathematics) - Softcover

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Alexey N. Karapetyants is professor of the Institute of Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Sciences and director of Regional Mathematical Center at the Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. His research interests include operator theory, mathematical physics, harmonic analysis: real and complex variable methods, and functional analysis. Vladislav V. Kravchenko is a researcher in the Department of Mathematics of Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Campus Queretaro, Mexico. His research interests include mathematical physics, differential equations, complex and hypercomplex analysis, spectral theory, and inverse problems.

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This book provides an introduction to the most recent developments in the theory and practice of direct and inverse Sturm-Liouville problems on finite and infinite intervals. A universal approach for practical solving of direct and inverse spectral and scattering problems is presented, based on the notion of transmutation (transformation) operators and their efficient construction. Analytical representations for solutions of Sturm-Liouville equations as well as for the integral kernels of the transmutation operators are derived in the form of functional series revealing interesting special features and lending themselves to direct and simple numerical solution of a wide variety of problems.

The book is written for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for mathematicians, physicists and engineers interested in direct and inverse spectral problems.