HALF INVERSE PROBLEMS FOR QUADRATIC PENCILS OF STURM-LIOUVILLE OPERATORS

Abstract

Generally, the coefficients $p(x)$ and $q(x)$ of quadratic pencils of Sturm-Liouville operators are uniquely determined by two spectra or one spectrum and norming constants. In the present paper we show if $% p(x)$ and $q(x)$ are known on half of the domain interval, then one spectrum suffices to determine them uniquely on the other half.