Jost Solution and the Spectrum of the Discrete Dirac Systems

We find polynomial-type Jost solution of the self-adjoint discrete Dirac systems. Then we investigate analytical properties and asymptotic behaviour of the Jost solution. Using the Weyl compact perturbation theorem, we prove that discrete Dirac system has the continuous spectrum filling the segment [-2,2]. We also study the eigenvalues of the Dirac system. In particular, we prove that the Dirac system has a finite number of simple real eigenvalues.

Let us consider the boundary value problem (BVP) generated by the Sturm-Liouville equation

and the boundary condition

where is a real-valued function and is a spectral parameter. The bounded solution of (1.1) satisfying the condition

will be denoted by . The solution satisfies the integral equation

It has been shown that, under the condition

the solution has the integral representation

where the function is defined by . The function is analytic with respect to in , continuous , and

holds [1, chapter 3].

The functions and are called Jost solution and Jost function of the BVP (1.1) and (1.2), respectively. These functions play an important role in the solution of inverse problems of the quantum scattering theory [1–4]. In particular, the scattering date of the BVP (1.1) and (1.2) is defined in terms of Jost solution and Jost function. Let , , be the zeros of the Jost function, numbered in the order of increase of their moduli () and

The functions

are bounded solutions of the BVP (1.1) and (1.2), where is the scattering function [1–4]. Using (1.7), we get that

hold. The collection of quantities that specify to as the behaviour of the radial wave functions and at infinity is called the scattering of the BVP (1.1) and (1.2).

Let us consider the self-adjoint system of differential equations of first order

where and are real-valued continuous functions. In the case , , where is a potential function and the mass of a particle, (1.11) is called stationary Dirac system in relativistic quantum theory [5, chapter 7]. Jost solution and the scattering theory of (1.11) have been investigated in [6].

Jost solutions of quadratic pencil of Schrödinger, Klein-Gordon, and -Sturm-Liouville equations have been obtained in [7–9]. In [10–17], using the analytical properties of Jost functions, the spectral analysis of differential and difference equations has been investigated.

Discrete boundary value problems have been intensively studied in the last decade. The modelling of certain linear and nonlinear problems from economics, optimal control theory, and other areas of study has led to the rapid development of the theory of difference equations. Also the spectral analysis of the difference equations has been treated by various authors in connection with the classical moment problem (see the monographs of Agarwal [18], Agarwal and Wong [19], Kelley and Peterson [20], and the references therein). The spectral theory of the difference equations has also been applied to the solution of classes of nonlinear discrete Korteveg-de Vries equations and Toda lattices [21].

Now let us consider the discrete Dirac system

with the boundary condition

where is the forward difference operator: and is the backward difference operator: ; and are real sequences. It is evident that (1.12) is the discrete analogy of (1.11). Let denote the operator generated in the Hilbert space by the BVP (1.12) and (1.13). The operator is self-adjoint, that is, . In the following, we will assume that, the real sequences and satisfy

In this paper, we find Jost solution of (1.12) and investigate analytical properties and asymptotic behaviour of the Jost solution. We also show that, , where denotes the continuous spectrum of , generated in by (1.12) and (1.13).

We also prove that under the condition (1.14) the operator has a finite number of simple real eigenvalues.

If for all and from (1.12), we get

It is clear that

is a solution of (2.1). Now we find the solution , of (1.12) for , satisfying the condition

where .

Theorem 2.1.

Under the condition (1.14) for and ,  (1.12) has the solution , , having the representation

where

Proof.

Substituting defined by (2.4) and (2.5) into (1.12) and taking , , we get the following:

Using (2.7) and (2.8),

hold, where . For , we obtain

By the condition (1.14), the series in the definition of () are absolutely convergent. Therefore, () can, by uniquely be defined by and , that is, the system (1.12) for and , has the solution given by (2.4) and (2.5).

By induction, we easily obtain that

where is the integer part of and is a constant. It follows from (2.4) and (2.11) that (2.3) holds.

Theorem 2.2.

The solution has an analytic continuation from to .

Proof.

From (1.14) and (2.11), we obtain that the series and are uniformly convergent in . This shows that the solution has an analytic continuation from to .

The functions and are called Jost solution and Jost function of the BVP (1.12) and (1.13), respectively. It follows from Theorem 2.2 that Jost solution and Jost function are analytic in and continuous on .

Theorem 2.3.

The following asymptotics hold:

Proof.

From (2.4), we get that

Using (2.11) and (2.13), we obtain

So we have

by (2.14). In a manner similar to (2.15), we get

From (2.15) and (2.16), we obtain (2.12).

Let denote the Hilbert space of all complex vector sequences

with the norm

Theorem 3.1.

.

Proof.

Let denote the operator generated in by the BVP

We also define the operator in by the following:

It is clear that and

where denotes the operator generated in by the BVP (1.12) and (1.13). It follows from (1.14) that the operator is compact in . We easily prove that

Using the Weyl theorem [22] of a compact perturbation, we obtain

Since the operator is selfadjoint, the eigenvalues of are real. From the definition of the eigenvalues, we get that

where denotes the set of all eigenvalues of .

Definition 3.2.

The multiplicity of a zero of the function is called the multiplicity of the corresponding eigenvalue of .

Theorem 3.3.

Under the condition (1.14), the operator has a finite number of simple real eigenvalues.

Proof.

To prove the theorem, we have to show that the function has a finite number of simple zeros.

Let be one of the zeros of . Now we show that

Let be the Jost solution of (1.12) that is,

Differentiating (3.10) with respect to , we have

Using (3.10) and (3.11), we obtain

or

It follows from (3.13) that

that is, all zeros of are simple.

Let denote the infimum of distances between two neighboring zeros of . We show that . Otherwise, we can take a sequence of zeros and of the function , such that

It follows from (2.4) that, for large ,

holds, where .

From the equation

we get

There is a contradiction comparing (3.16) and (3.18). So and function has only a finite number of zeros.

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