International Journal of Difference Equations
  • Year: 2006
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue: 2

Inverse Nodal Problems for Second Order Differential Operators with a Regular Singularity

  • Author:
  • Etibar S. Panakhov, Hikmet Koyunbakan
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 241 to 247

Firat University, Department of Mathematics, 23119, Elazig, Turkey.

*Permanent address: Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, 370143, Baku, Azerbaijan. E-mail: epenahov@hotmail.com, hkoyunbakan@gmail.com

AMS subject classification: 34B24, 34B99.

Abstract

The inverse nodal problem for the Sturm–Liouville operator is the problem of finding the potential function q and the boundary conditions using the nodal points. The purpose of this paper is to present a method for solving the inverse nodal problem for a singular differential operator on a finite interval. We find asymptotic formulas for nodal points and the nodal lengths for differential operators having singularity type at the point 0. We also determine the potential function from the position of nodes.

Keywords

Singular differential equation, eigenfunction, nodal point