An inverse nodal problem has first been studied for the Sturm-Liouville equation with one turning point. The asymptotic representation of the corresponding eigenfunctions of the eigenvalues has been investigated and an asymptotic of the nodal points is obtained. For this problem, we give a reconstruction formula for the potential function. Furthermore, numerical examples have been established a...

The inverse nodal problem was initiated by McLaughlin [1], who proved that the Sturm-Liouville problem is uniquely determined by any dense subset of the nodal points. Some numerical schemes were given by Hald and McLaughlin [2] for the reconstruction of the potential. Recently Law, Yang and other authors have reconstructed the potential function and its derivatives of the Sturm-Liouville proble...

Oscillation and nonoscillation properties of second order Sturm–Liouville dynamic equations on time scales attracted much interest. These equations include, as special cases, second order self-adjoint differential equations as well as second order Sturm–Liouville difference equations. In this paper we consider a given (homogeneous) equation and a corresponding equation with forcing term. We giv...

Solving inverse scattering problem for a discrete Sturm–Liouville operator with a rapidly decreasing potential one gets reflection coefficients s± and invertible operators I +Hs± , where Hs± is the Hankel operator related to the symbol s±. The Marchenko– Faddeev theorem (in the continuous case) [6] and the Guseinov theorem (in the discrete case) [4], guarantees the uniqueness of solution of the...

The indefinite Sturm-Liouville operator A = (sgn x)(−d2/dx2 + q(x)) is studied. It is proved that similarity of A to a selfadjoint operator is equivalent to integral estimates of Cauchy integrals. Also similarity conditions in terms of Weyl functions are given. For operators with a finite-zone potential, the components Aess and Adisc of A corresponding to essential and discrete spectrums, respe...

We study conformal mappings from the unit disk to circular-arc quadrilaterals with four right angles. The problem is reduced to a Sturm-Liouville boundary value problem on a real interval, with a nonlinear boundary condition, in which the coefficient functions contain the accessory parameters t, λ of the mapping problem. The parameter λ is designed in such a way that for fixed t, it plays the r...

This paper gives the analysis and numerics underlying a shooting method for approximating the eigenvalues of nonselfadjoint Sturm-Liouville problems. We consider even order problems with (equally divided) separated boundary conditions. The method can nd the eigenvalues in a rectangle and in a left half-plane. It combines the argument principle with the compound matrix method (using the Magnus e...

The indefinite Sturm-Liouville operator A = (sgnx)(−d2/dx2 + q(x)) is studied. It is proved that similarity of A to a selfadjoint operator is equivalent to integral estimates of Cauchy integrals. Also similarity conditions in terms of Weyl functions are given. For operators with a finite-zone potential, the components Aess and Adisc of A corresponding to essential and discrete spectrums, respec...

The method proposed here has been devised for solution of the spectral problem for the Lamé wave equation (see [2]), but extended lately to more general problems. This method is based on the phase function concept or the Prüfer angle determined by the Prüfer transformation cot θ(x) = y′(x)/y(x), where y(x) is a solution of a second order self-adjoint o.d.e. The Prüfer angle θ(x) has some useful...

The variational iterationmethod VIM 1–4 and homotopy perturbationmethod HPM 5– 8 , proposed byHe, are powerful analytical methods for various kinds of linear and nonlinear problems. For example, the variational iteration method has been applied to autonomous ordinary differential equation 9 and delay differential equation 10 . Abdou and Soliman applied this method to Schrodinger-KDV, generalize...