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Ambarzumyan-type theorem for the impulsive Sturm–Liouville operator

  • Ran Zhang and Chuan-Fu Yang ORCID logo EMAIL logo

Abstract

We prove that if the Neumann eigenvalues of the impulsive Sturm–Liouville operator -D2+q in L2(0,π) coincide with those of the Neumann Laplacian, then q=0.

MSC 2010: 34A55; 34B24; 47E05

Award Identifier / Grant number: 11871031

Award Identifier / Grant number: BK 20201303

Funding statement: The research work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11871031) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK 20201303).

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the referees for valuable comments.

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Received: 2020-06-29
Revised: 2020-10-18
Accepted: 2020-11-03
Published Online: 2020-12-19
Published in Print: 2021-02-01

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