A new approach to inverse spectral theory, II. General real potentials and the connection to the spectral measure

Annals of Mathematics

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 593-643

  Gesztesy, Fritz ^a   Simon, Barry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse spectral theory; Spectral measure; Weyl Titchmarsh m function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034257480     PISSN: 0003486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2661393     Document Type: Article

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