Duisburg, Universiẗat, Diss., 1997. / Dateiformat: zip, Dateien in unterschiedlichen Formaten.

University, Diss., 2006--Kassel.

Ulm, Univ. Diss., 2006.

In this thesis, we study the inverse nodal problem and inverse spectral problem for various Sturm-Liouville operators, in particular, Hill's operators. We first show that the space of Schr"odinger operators under separated boundary conditions characterized by ${H=(q,al, e)in L^{1}(0,1) imes [0,pi)^{2} : int_{0}^{1}q=0}$ is homeomorphic to the partition set of the space of all admissible sequences $X={X_{k}^{(n)}}$ which form sequences that converge to $q, al$ and $ e$ individually. The definition of $Gamma$, the space of quasinodal sequences, relies on the $L^{1}$ convergence of the reconstruction formula for $q$ by the exactly nodal sequence. Then we study the inverse nodal problem for Hill's equation, and solve the uniqueness, reconstruction and stability problem. We do this by making a translation of Hill's equation and turning it into a Dirichlet Schr"odinger problem. Then the estimates of corresponding nodal length and eigenvalues can be deduced. Furthermore, the reconstruction formula of the potential function and the uniqueness can be shown. We also show the quotient space $Lambda/sim$ is homeomorphic to the space $Omega={qin L^{1}(0,1) : int_{0}^{1}q = 0, q(x)=q(x+1) mbox{on} mathbb{R}}$. Here the space $Lambda$ is a collection of all admissible sequences $X={X_{k}^{(n)}}$ which form sequences that converge to $q$. Finally we show that if the periodic potential function $q$ of Hill's equation is single-well on $[0,1]$, then $q$ is constant if and only if the first instability interval is absent. The same is also valid for convex potentials. Then we show that similar statements are valid for single-barrier and concave density functions for periodic string equation. Our result extends that of M. J. Huang and supplements the works of Borg and Hochstadt.

Techn. University, Diss., 2002--Berlin.

This paper examines and develops matrix methods to approximate the eigenvalues of a fourth order Sturm-Liouville problem subjected to a kind of fixed boundary conditions, furthermore, it extends the matrix methods for a kind of general boundary conditions. The idea of the methods comes from finite difference and Numerov's method as well as boundary value methods for second order regular Sturm-Liouville problems. Moreover, the determination of the correction term formulas of the matrix methods are investigated in order to obtain better approximations of the problem with fixed boundary conditions since the exact eigenvalues for q = 0 are known in this case. Finally, some numerical examples are illustrated.

In this thesis, we demonstrate the capability of power series, combined with numerical methods, to solve boundary value problems and Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problems of ordinary differential equations. This kind of schemes is usually called the numerical-symbolic, numerical-analytic or semi-analytic method. In the first chapter, we develop an adaptive algorithm, which automatically decides the terms of power series to reach desired accuracy. The expansion point of power series can be chosen freely. It is also possible to combine several power series piecewisely. We test it on several models, including the second and higher order linear or nonlinear differential equations. For nonlinear problems, the same procedure works similarly to linear problems. The only differences are the nonlinear recurrence of the coefficients and a nonlinear equation, instead of linear, to be solved. In the second chapter, we use our semi-analytic method to solve singularly perturbed problems. These problems arise frequently in fluid mechanics and other branches of applied mathematics. Due to the existence of boundary or interior layers, its solution is very steep at certain point. So the terms of series need to be large in order to reach the desired accuracy. To improve its efficiency, we have a strategy to select only a few required basis from the whole polynomial family. Our method is shown to be a parameter diminishing method. A specific type of boundary value problem, called the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem, is very important in science and engineering. They can also be solved by our semi-analytic method. This is our focus in the third chapter. Our adaptive method works very well to compute its eigenvalues and eigenfunctions with desired accuracy. The numerical results are very satisfactory.

In this PhD thesis we study some weighted regular Sturm-Liouville problems in which the weight function takes on both positive and negative signs in an appropriate interval [a,b]. With such  problems there is the possible existence of non-real eigenvalues, unlike in the definite case (i.e. left or right definite) in which only real eigenvalues exist. This PhD thesis consists of five papers (papers A-E) and an introduction to this area, which puts these papers into a more general frame. In paper A we give some precise estimates on the Richardson number for the two turning point case, thereby complementing the work of Jabon and Atkinson from 1984 in an essential way. We also give a corrected version of their result since there seems to be a typographical error in their paper. In paper B we show that the interlacing property, which holds in the one turning point case, does not hold in the two turning point case. The paper consists of a detailed presentation of numerical results of the case in which the weight function is allowed to change its sign twice in the interval (-1, 2). We also present some theoretical results which support the numerical results. Moreover, a number of new open questions are raised. We also observe that the real and imaginary parts of a non-real eigenfunction either have the same number of zeros in the interval (-1,2) or the numbers of zeros differ by two. In paper C, we obtain bounds on real and imaginary parts of non-real eigenvalues of a non-definite Sturm-Liouville problem, with Dirichlet boundary conditions, thus complementing the results obtained in a paper byBehrndt et.al. from 2013 in an essential way. In paper D we obtain a lower bound on the eigenvalue of the smallest modulus associated with a Dirichlet problem in the general case of a regular Sturm-Liouville problem. In paper E we expand upon the basic oscillation theory for general boundary problems of the form   -y''+q(x)y=λw(x)y,  on  I = [a,b], where  q(x) and w(x) are real-valued continuous functions on [a,b] and y is required to satisfy a pair of homogeneous separated boundary conditions at the end-points. Already in 1918 Richardson proved that, in the case of the Dirichlet problem,  if w(x) changes its sign exactly once and the boundary problem is  non-definite, then the zeros of the real and imaginary parts of any non-real eigenfunction interlace. We show that, unfortunately, this result is false in the case of two turning points, thus removing any hope for a general separation theorem for the zeros of the non-real eigenfunctions. Furthermore, we show that when a non-real eigenfunction vanishes inside I, then the absolute value of the difference between the total number of zeros of its real and imaginary parts is exactly 2.

Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons à résoudre certains problèmes inverses pour des équations différentielles aux dérivées fractionnaires. Un problème inverse est généralement mal posé. Un problème mal posé est un problème qui ne répond pas à l’un des trois critères de Hadamard pour être bien posé, c’est-à-dire, soit l’existence, l’unicité ou une dépendance continue aux données n'est plus vraie, à savoir, des petits changements dans les données de mesure entraînent des changements indéfiniment importants dans la solution. La plupart des difficultés à résoudre des problèmes mal posés sont causées par l’instabilité de la solution. D’autre part, les équations différentielles fractionnaires deviennent un outil important dans la modélisation de nombreux problèmes de la vie réelle et il y a eu donc un intérêt croissant pour l’étude des problèmes inverses avec des équations différentielles fractionnaires. Le calcul fractionnaire est une branche des mathématiques qui fait référence à l’extension du concept de dérivation classique à la dérivation d’ordre non entier. Calculer une dérivée fractionnaire à un certain moment exige tous les processus précédents avec des propriétés de mémoire. C’est l’avantage principal du calcul fractionnaire d’expliquer les processus associés aux systèmes physiques complexes qui ont une mémoire à long terme et / ou des interactions spatiales à longue distance. De plus, les équations différentielles fractionnaires peuvent nous aider à réduire les erreurs découlant de paramètres négligés dans la modélisation des phénomènes physiques. / In this thesis, we are interested in solving some inverse problems for fractional differential equations. An inverse problem is usually ill-posed. The concept of an ill-posed problem is not new. While there is no universal formal definition for inverse problems, Hadamard [1923] defined a problem as being ill-posed if it violates the criteria of a well-posed problem, that is, either existence, uniqueness or continuous dependence on data is no longer true, i.e., arbitrarily small changes in the measurement data lead to indefinitely large changes in the solution. Most difficulties in solving ill-posed problems are caused by solution instability. Inverse problems come into various types, for example, inverse initial problems where initial data are unknown and inverse source problems where the source term is unknown. These unknown terms are to be determined using extra boundary data. Fractional differential equations, on the other hand, become an important tool in modeling many real-life problems and hence there has been growing interest in studying inverse problems of time fractional differential equations. The Non-Integer Order Calculus, traditionally known as Fractional Calculus is the branch of mathematics that tries to interpolate the classical derivatives and integrals and generalizes them for any orders, not necessarily integer order. The advantages of fractional derivatives are that they have a greater degree of flexibility in the model and provide an excellent instrument for the description of the reality. This is because of the fact that the realistic modeling of a physical phenomenon does not depend only on the instant time, but also on the history of the previous time, i.e., calculating timefractional derivative at some time requires all the previous processes with memory and hereditary properties.