INVERSE SPECTRAL ANALYSIS WITH PARTIAL INFORMATION ON THE POTENTIAL, I. THE CASE OF AN A.C. COMPONENT IN THE SPECTRUM
INVERSE SPECTRAL ANALYSIS WITH PARTIAL INFORMATION ON THE POTENTIAL, I. THE CASE OF AN A.C. COMPONENT IN THE SPECTRUM
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1997
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F. Gesztesy;B. Simon
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F. Gesztesy;B. Simon
We consider operators− d2 dx2 +V in L(R) with the sole hypothesis that V is limit point at ±∞ and that − d2 dx2 + V in L2((0,∞)) has some absolutely continuous component S+ in its spectrum. We prove that V on (−∞, 0) is completely determined by knowledge of V on (0,∞) and by the reflection coefficient R+(λ) for scattering from right incidence and energies λ ∈ S, where S ⊆ S+ has positive Lebesgue measure. It is well known [15] that knowledge of the reflection coefficient at positive energies does not determine the potential V of a Schrödinger operator − d dx2 + V (V (x) → 0 sufficiently rapidly as |x| → ∞), but that one also needs bound state energies and associated norming constants. This is most dramatically seen in one-soliton potentials where R+(λ) ≡ 0, λ ≥ 0, even though there is a two-parameter family of such potentials parametrized by the center and width of the soliton. There has been a recent rash of papers [2, 3, 4, 6, 12, 18, 19] showing that if V is known a.e. on a half-line and vanishes sufficiently fast as |x| → ∞ in the sense that at least its first moment on R exists, then the norming constants and even the bound state energies are not needed (some of these papers are limited to the case where V is assumed to vanish on the right half-line). Our goal here is to note that this is a special case of a very general and very elementary phenomenon: It is not required that V has simple asymptotics as |x| → ∞. Rather, all that is significant is that V be known a.e. on (0,∞) 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 34A55, 34B20, 34L25; Secondary 34L40.