We consider eigenvalue problems for self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville difference equations of any even order. It is well known that such problems with Dirichlet boundary conditions can be transformed into an algebraic eigenvalue problem for a banded, real-symmetric matrix, and vice versa. In this article it is shown that such a transform exists for general separated, self-adjoint boundary conditions...

Let A be an unbounded from above self-adjoint operator in a separable Hilbert space H and EA(·) its spectral measure. We discuss the inverse spectral problem for singular perturbations à of A (à and A coincide on a dense set in H). We show that for any a ∈ R there exists a singular perturbation à of A such that à and A coincide in the subspace EA((−∞, a))H and simultaneously à has an additional...