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Zbl 1228.39006
Sun, Huaqing; Qi, Jiangang; Jing, Haibin
Classification of non-self-adjoint singular Sturm-Liouville difference equations. (English)
[J] Appl. Math. Comput. 217, No. 20, 8020-8030 (2011). ISSN 0096-3003

This paper is concerned with the Sturm-Liouville difference equation with complex coefficients: $$-\nabla \left( p(n)\Delta x(n)\right) +q(n)x(n)=\lambda w(n)x(n),\ n\in {\mathbb{N}}_{0}=\{0,1,2,\dots\}, \tag1$$ where $\left\{ p(n)\right\} _{n=-1}^\infty, \left\{q(n)\right\}_{n=0}^{\infty}$ are complex sequences such that $p(n)\ne 0$ for $ n=0,1,2,\dots$, $\left\{ w(n)\right\} _{n=0}^{\infty }$ is a positive real sequence, and $\lambda $ is a spectral parameter. An important question is whether a solution $\left\{ x(n)\right\} _{n=-1}^{\infty }$ (which depends on $\lambda $) is square summable, that is, whether the series $ \sum_{n=0}^{\infty }w(n)\left\vert x(n)\right\vert ^{2}$ is finite. Let $$\Omega =\overline{co}\left\{ \frac{q(n)}{w(n)}+rp(n),\ n\in {\mathbb{N}}_{0},\ 0<r<\infty \right\},$$ where $\overline{co}$ stands for the closed convex hull, let $$S=\left\{ (\theta ,K):K\in \partial \Omega ,\text{Re}\left\vert (z-K)e^{i\theta }\right\vert \ge 0\text{ for all }z\in \Omega \right\},$$ and let $$\Lambda _{\theta ,K}=\left\{ \lambda \in {\mathbb{C}}:\text{Re}\left( \left( \lambda -K\right) e^{i\theta }\right) <0\right\}.$$ The authors give the following definition: Let $(\theta ,K)\in S$ and $\lambda \in \Lambda _{\theta,K}$. If (1) has exactly one linearly independent solution $\left\{x(n)\right\}$ satisfying $$\sum_{n=0}^{\infty }\text{Re}\left[ e^{i\theta }\left( q(n)-Kw(n)\right) \right] \left\vert x(n)\right\vert ^{2}+\sum_{n=0}^{\infty }\text{Re}\left( e^{i\theta }p(n)\right) \left\vert \Delta (n)\right\vert ^{2}+\sum_{n=0}^{\infty }w(n)\left\vert x(n)\right\vert ^{2}<\infty, \tag2$$ and this is the only linearly independent square summable solution, then (1) is of Type I. If (1) has exactly one linearly independent solution satisfying (2), but all solutions of (1) are square summable, then (1) is of Type II. If all solutions of (1) satisfy (2) (and hence square summable), then (1) is of Type III. It is shown that a Type I equation does not depend on $\Lambda _{\theta ,K},$ but Type II and Type III equations do. The results in this paper supplement those in an earlier paper by {\it R. H. Wilson} [Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A, Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 461, No.~2057, 1505--1531 (2005; Zbl 1145.47303)]. In particular, the dependence of Type II and Type III equations on $\Lambda _{\theta ,K}$ is discussed. Remark: Since $p(-1)$ is also involved in (1), it may seem necessary to explain why this number does not play any role in $\Omega$ and in the classification scheme.
[Sui Sun Cheng (Hsinchu)]

MSC 2000:: *39A12 Discrete version of topics in analysis
39A06
39A22
34B24 Sturm-Liouville theory

Keywords: Sturm-Liouville difference equation; Hamiltonian difference system; square summable solition; limit point; limit circle; classification scheme

Citations: Zbl 1145.47303

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