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Regular Approximations of Singular Sturm-Liouville Problems with Limit-Circle Endpoints

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For any self-adjoint realization S of a singular Sturm-Liouville equation on an interval (a,b) with limit-circle endpoints, we construct a family of self-adjoint realizations S r ,r ∈ (0,∞), of this equation on subintervals (a r ,b r ) of (a,b) such that every eigenvalue of S is the limit of a continuous eigenvalue branch of this family. Of particular interest are the cases when at least one endpoint is oscillatory or the leading coefficient function changes sign. In these cases, we show that the index determining each continuous eigenvalue branch has an infinite number of jump discontinuities and give an explicit characterization of these discontinuities.

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    L. Kong, Q. Kong, H. Wu & Anton Zettl

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Kong, L., Kong, Q., Wu, H. et al. Regular Approximations of Singular Sturm-Liouville Problems with Limit-Circle Endpoints. Results. Math. 45, 274–292 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03323382

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