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Abstract
In this article, we present some results about the Sturm–Liouville equation with turning points and singularities and transform them to each other. By applying a change of a variable, we can transform the differential equation with a turning point to the differential equation with a singularity. Also we will prove that a differential equation with a singularity will be transformed to a differential equation with a turning point in some cases.
Public Interest Statement
The theory of the inverse spectral problems is very helpful in the study of many areas of research, such as mathematics, mechanics, physics, geophysics, computer sciences, etc. In the recent decade, the investigation of the inverse problem is an important research topic and there is increasing interest in this field. The study of these problems helps to describe the behavior of nature by mathematical logic.
1. Introduction
Differential equations with turning points and singularities have emerged as an effective and powerful tool to study a wide class of related problems arising in various branches of mathematics, mechanics, physics, geophysics, computer sciences and other branches of natural sciences. Better knowledge and understanding from these equations provide us to study a wide class of problems arising in mathematical physics, radio electronics, and other fields of sciences and technologies (see Constantin, Citation1998; Conway, Citation1995; Dehghan & Jodayree, Citation2013; Hryniv and Mykytyuk, Citation2004; Lapwood & Usami, Citation1981; Litvinenko & Soshnikov, Citation1964). Differential equations with turning points and singularities have been studied in Mosazadeh & Neamaty (Citation2011); Neamaty & Khalili (Citation2013); Neamaty & Mosazadeh (Citation2011); and Yurko (Citation1997). But the relationship between turning points and singularities has not yet been studied basically. In Neamaty & Mosazadeh (Citation2011), differential equations with a turning point of the second type are transformed to a singularity. To the best of our knowledge, it does not exist an exact study on the relevance between a turning and singular point. For this reason, we would like to point out the transformation to convert two points to each other. This transformation is like the Liouville transformation, but with this difference that the Liouville transformation transforms the Sturm–Liouville equations with the positive weight function to the Sturm–Liouville equations with the weight function and continuous potential function. Indeed we extend this transformation and would like to prove that the extended transformation can be applied for Sturm–Liouville equations with the turning point. We gave here only the main idea and refer the interested reader to Miller & Michel (Citation1982) for further details. Therefore, we show that this transformation will omit the turning point and commute a turning point to a singularity. Moreover, we will prove that a singular point does not simply vanish. In other words, we will transform a singular point of second order to a turning point by the same transformation which indeed we use the reverse of this transformation to omit the singularity.
As mentioned earlier, the main goal of this article is to study the relationship between a turning point and a singularity in the Sturm–Liouville equations. We will apply a change of a variable to transform a turning point into a singularity. Taking the same transformation, we will convert merely a singularity of the second order to a turning point and give the interesting results. We mention that the approach considered in this article can serve as a tool for various studies connected with the spectral theory of Sturm–Liouville equations and topics connected with these problems, like, for example, direct and inverse spectral problems. We note that direct and inverse spectral problems for differential equations having singularities and/or turning points were studied in Dehghan & Jodayree (Citation2013), Neamaty & Khalili (Citation2013, Citation2014), and other works.
2. Main results
We consider the differential equation
with the weight function We assume that the weight function has the zeros in an interior point
which is called a turning point. The functions
and
are real valued.
Lemma 1. Consider the Equation (2.1). Let two real functions and
be piecewise continuous. If the following change of the variable
Proof. After obtaining and substituting in the Equation (2.1), we get
The Lemma 1 is proved.
Theorem 1. Consider the Equation (2.1). Then under the following transformation
Proof. Using Lemma 1, we assume that the following transformation
Notation 1. Consider the Equation (2.1). Let be fixed, sufficiently small and
for
and
We distinguish four different types of turning points
. For
To show the application of this transformation, we apply it for two different types of turning points.
Example 1. Consider the following differential equation
Example 2. Consider the following differential equation
We can prove the problem for other types of turning points, analogously. Therefore, a turning point of any type is transformed to a singular point of the second order by this transformation.
Now we will show that singular points of the second order are only transformed to the turning point by this transformation.
Theorem 2. The transformation (2.3) only transmutes a singular point of the second order to a turning point in Sturm–Liouville equations.
Proof. Consider the following differential equation
It seems that singular points of other orders do not vanish. In this case, we only mention the following theorem.
Theorem 3. The following transformation made on the discontinuous function
Proof. We consider the following differential equation
3. Conclusions
In this article, we verify a transformation to omit the turning points in Sturm–Liouville equations. In other words, we proposed a transformation and proved that this transformation can eliminate a turning point (Theorem 1). Also we showed that differential equations with a singular point of the second order are transformed to a differential equation with a turning point by using this transformation.
Moreover, we proved that any transformation of the form (2.35) cannot omit the singularity.
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Funding
Notes on contributors
Y. Khalili
Y. Khalili is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Basic Sciences, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, 578 Sari, Iran. His fields of research are direct and inverse spectral problems, asymptotic distribution of the eigenvalues, and applications of the inverse problems.
A. Neamaty
A. Neamaty is an Associate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran. His favorite fields are direct and inverse spectral problems, asymptotic distribution of the eigenvalues, and applications of the inverse problems.
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