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The equiconvergence of the eigenfunction expansion for a singular version of one-dimensional Schrodinger operator with explosive factor
Boundary Value Problems volume 2011, Article number: 45 (2011)
Abstract
This paper is devoted to prove the equiconvergence formula of the eigenfunction expansion for some version of Schrodinger operator with explosive factor. The analysis relies on asymptotic calculation and complex integration. The paper is of great interest for the community working in the area.
(2000) Mathematics Subject Classification
34B05; 43B24; 43L10; 47E05
1 Introduction
Consider the Dirichlet problem
where q(x) is a non-negative real function belonging to L1[0, π], λ is a spectral parameter, and ρ(x) is of the form
In [1], the author studied the asymptotic formulas of the eigenvalues, and eigenfunctions of problem (1.1)-(1.2) and proved that the eigenfunctions are orthogonal with weight function ρ(x). In [2], the author also studied the eigenfunction expansion of the problem(1.1)-(1.2). The calculation of the trace formula for the eigenvalues of the problem(1.1)-(1.2) is to appear. We mention here the basic definition and results from [1] that are needed in the progress of this work. Let φ(x, λ), ψ(x, λ) be the solutions of the problem (1.1)-(1.2) with the boundary conditions φ (0, λ) = 0, φ'(0, λ) = 1, ψ(π, λ) = 0, ψ'(π, λ) = 1 and let W(λ) = φ(x, λ)ψ'(x, λ) - ψ(x, λ)φ'(x, λ) be the Wronskian of the two linearly independent solutions φ(x, λ), ψ(x, λ). It is known that W is independent of x so that for x = a let W(λ) = Ψ(λ), the eigenvalues of (1.1)-(1.2) coincide with the roots of the equation Ψ(λ) = 0, which are simple. It is easy to see that the roots of Ψ(λ) = 0 are simple. The function
is called the Green's function of the Dirichlet problem (1.1)-(1.2). This function satisfies for λ = λ k the relation
where λ k are the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet problem (1.1)-(1.2) and a k ≠ 0, where are the normalization numbers of the eigenfunctions of the same problem (1.1)-(1.2). We consider now the Dirichlet problem (1.1)-(1.2) in the simple form of q(x) ≡ 0. For q(x) = 0, the Dirichlet problem (1.1)-(1.2) takes the form
Let the eigenfunctions of the problem (1.6) be characterized by the index "o," i.e., φ o (x, λ) and ψ o (x, λ) are the solutions of the problem (1.6) in cases of ρ(x) = 1 and ρ(x) = -1, respectively, where
From (1.7), we notice that φ o (x, λ) ψ o (x, λ) are defined on parts of the interval [0, π], and these formulas must be extended to all intervals [0, π] to enable us to study the Green's function R(x, ξ, λ) in case of q(x) ≡ 0. The following lemma study this extension
Lemma 1.1 The solutions φ o (x, λ) and ψ o (x, λ) have the following asymptotic formulas
Proof: The fundamental system of solutions of the equation -y″ = s2y, (0 ≤ x ≤ a) is y1(x, s) = sin sx, y2(x, s) = cos sx. Similarly, the fundamental system of the equation y″ = s2y, (a < x ≤ π) is z1(x, s) = sinh s(π - x), z2(x, s) = cosh s(π - x). So that the solutions φ o (x, λ) and ψ o (x, λ), over [0, π], can be written in the forms
The constants c i ,i = 1, 2, 3, 4 are calculated from the continuity of φ o (x, λ) and ψ o (x, λ) together with their first derivatives at the point x = a, from which it can be easily seen that
Substituting (1.12) into (1.10), we get (1.8). In a similar way, we calculate the constants c3, c4 where
Substituting (1.12) and (1.13) into (1.10) and (1.11), respectively, we get the required relations (1.8) and (1.9)
2 The function R(x, ξ, λ) and the equiconvergence
The Green's function plays an important role in studying the equiconvergence theorem, so that, in addition to R(x, ξ, λ), we must study the corresponding Green's function for q(x) ≡ 0. Let R o (x, ξ, λ) be the Green's function of problem (1.6), which is defined by
where the function
satisfies the following inequality on Γ n , which is defined by (2.21)
Following [2], we state some basic asymptotic relations that are useful in the discussion. The solutions φ(x, λ) and ψ(x, λ) of the Dirichlet problem (1.1)-(1.2) have the following asymptotic formula
where
As we introduce in (1.4), the function R(x, ξ, λ) is the Green's function of the problem (1.1)-(1.2), and R o (x, ξ, λ) is the corresponding Green's function of the problem (1.6). In the following lemma, we prove an important asymptotic relation for the Green's function
Lemma 2.2 For q(x) ∈ L1(0, π) and by the help of the asymptotic formulas (2.4), (2.5) for φ(x, λ) and ψ(x, λ), respectively, the Green's function R(x, ξ, λ) satisfies the relation
where r(x, ξ, λ), λ ∈ Γ n , n → ∞, satisfies
Proof: From (2.4) and (2.5), the function
takes the form
or
The function Ψ o (λ) is given by (2.2). for x ≤ ξ, we discuss three possible cases:
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(i)
0 ≤ x ≤ ξ ≤ a (ii) a ≤ x ≤ ξ ≤ π (iii) 0 ≤ x ≤ a ≤ ξ ≤ π.
The case (i) 0 ≤ x ≤ ξ ≤ a
From (1.4) and using (2.4) and (2.5), we have
Using (2.9), (2.10), and (2.3), we have
So that from (2.1), for 0 ≤ x ≤ ξ ≤ a, we have
The case (ii) a ≤ x ≤ ξ ≤ π.
Again, from (1.4) and using (2.4) and (2.5), we have
Using (2.9), (2.10), and (2.3), we have
So that from (2.1), for a ≤ x ≤ ξ ≤ π, we have
The case (iii) 0 ≤ x ≤ a ≤ ξ ≤ π.
From (1.4) and using (2.4) and (2.5), we have
Using (2.9), (2.10), and (2.3), we have
So that from (2.1), for a ≤ x ≤ ξ ≤ π, we have
The asymptotic formulas of R(x, ξ, λ) in case of ξ ≤ x remains to be evaluated and this, in turn, consists of three cases
(i*) 0 ≤ ξ ≤ x ≤ a (ii*) a ≤ ξ ≤ x ≤ π (iii*) 0 ≤ ξ ≤ a ≤ x ≤ π.
The case (i*) 0 ≤ ξ ≤ x ≤ a from (1.4) and using (2.4) and (2.5), we have
Using (2.9), (2.10), and (2.3), we have
So that from (2.1), for a ≤ ξ ≤ x ≤ a, we have
The case (ii*) a ≤ ξ ≤ x ≤ π from (1.4) and using (2.4) and (2.5), we have
Using (2.9), (2.10), and (2.3), we have
So that from (2.1), for a ≤ ξ ≤ x ≤ π, we have
The case (iii*) 0 ≤ ξ ≤ x ≤ a ≤ x ≤ π from (1.4) and using (2.4) and (2.5), we have
Using (2.9), (2.10), and (2.3), we have
So that from (2.1), for a ≤ ξ ≤ x ≤ a, we have
Now from (2.11) and (2.14), we have
also, from (2.12) and (2.15), we have
As a result of the last discussion from (2.13), (2.16), (2.17), and (2.18), we deduce that R(x, ξ, λ) obeys the asymptotic relation
where
We remind here that the main purpose of this paper is to prove the equiconvergence of the eigenfunction expansion of the Dirichlet problem (1.1)-(1.2). We introduce the following notations, let Δn,f(x) denotes the n th partial sum
where, from [1], . It should be noted here, from [2], that as n → ∞, the series (2.20) converges uniformly to a function f(x) ∈ L2(0, π, ρ(x)). Let also be the corresponding n th partial sum as (2.20), for the Dirichlet problem (1.1)-(1.2) in case of q(x) ≡ 0. The equiconvergence of the eigenfunction expansion means that the difference uniformly converges to zero as n → ∞, x ∈ [0, π]. In the following theorem, we prove the equiconvergence theorem of the expansions . This means that the two expansions have the same condition of convergence. Following [1], the contour Γ n is defined by
Denote by the upper half of the contour Γ n , Ims ≥ 0, and let L n be the contour, in λ-domain, formed from by the mapping λ = s2. From (1.4), it is obvious that the poles of R(x, ξ, λ) are the roots of the function Ψ(s), which is the spectrum of the problem (1.1)-(1.2).
Theorem 2.1 Under the validity of lemma 1.1 and lemma 2.2, the following relation of equiconvergence holds true
Proof: Multiply both sides of (2.7) by ρ(ξ) f (ξ) and then integrating from 0 to π, we have
where f(x) ∈ L2[0, π, ρ(x)]. We multiply the last equation by and then integrating over the contour L n in the λ-domain, we have
From equation (1.5), we have the following
Applying Cauchy residues formula to the first integral of (2.23) and using (2.24), we have
Similarly, we carry out the same procedure to the second integral of (2.23) and we get an expression analogous to (2.25)
So that from (2.25), (2.26), and (2.23), we get
from which it follows that
The last Equation (2.27) is an essential relation in the proof of the theorem, because the theorem is established if we prove that tends to zero uniformly, x ∈ [0, π]. We use the same technique as in [3] We have
where M1 and M2 are constants.
We treat now the integral in (2.30). Let δ > 0 be a sufficiently small number and let λ = s2, so that, for x, ξ ∈ [0, a], we have
This means that
where C1, C2, and C3 are independent of x, n and δ. In a similar way, we estimate the second integral in (2.30) in the form
where , and are independent of x, n, and δ. Substituting (2.30) and (2.31) into (2.28) and using (2.29), we have
where A,B, and C are constants independent of x, n, and δ. We apply now the property of absolute continuity of Lesbuge integral to the function f(x) ∈ L1[0, π].
∀ ϵ > 0, ∃ δ > 0 is sufficiently small such that ∫|x-ξ|≤δ|f(ξ)|dξ ≤ ϵ, where ϵ is independent of x (the set {ξ : |x - ξ| ≤ δ} is measurable). Fixing δ in (2.32), there exists N such that for all and e-δn< ϵ, so that (2.32) takes the form
Since ϵ is sufficiently small as we please, it follows that as n → ∞, uniformly with respect to x ∈ [0, π], which completes the proof.
3 The conclusion and comments
It should be noted here that, the theorem of equiconvergence of the eigenfunction expansion is one of interesting analytical problem that arising in the field of spectral analysis of differential operators, see [4–6]. In [3], the author studied the equiconvergence theorem of the problem
There are many differences between problems (3.34)-(3.35) and the present one (1.1)-(1.2), and the differences are as follows:
1- The boundary conditions of (3.35) is separated boundary conditions, whereas (1.2) is the Dirichlet-Dirichlet condition
2- The eigenfunctions of (3.34)-(3.35) is given by
and
3- The contour of integration is of the form
4- The remainder function r(x, ξ, λ) admits the following inequality for λ ∈ Γ n , n → ∞.
Although there are four differences between the two problems, we find that the proof of the equiconvergence formula as n → ∞ is similar. So as long as the proof of the equiconvergence relation is carried out by means of the contour integration, we obtain the uniform convergence of the series (2.20)
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We are indebted to an anonymous referee for a detailed reading of the manuscript and useful comments and suggestions, which helped us improve this work. This work was supported by the research center of Alexandria University.
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El-Raheem, Z.F., Nasser, A. The equiconvergence of the eigenfunction expansion for a singular version of one-dimensional Schrodinger operator with explosive factor. Bound Value Probl 2011, 45 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-2770-2011-45
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