TY - JOUR
T1 - Inversion of Trace Formulas for a Sturm-Liouville Operator
AU - Xu , Xiang
AU - Zhai , Jian
JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics
VL - 3
SP - 396
EP - 414
PY - 2022
DA - 2022/02
SN - 40
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2010-m2019-0307
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/20243.html
KW - Inverse spectral problem, Sturm-Liouville operator, Trace formulas.
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">This paper revisits the classical problem “Can we hear the density of a string?”, which can be formulated as an inverse spectral problem for a Sturm-Liouville operator. Instead of inverting the map from density to spectral data directly, we propose a novel method to reconstruct the density based on inverting a sequence of trace formulas which bridge the density and its spectral data clearly in terms of a series of nonlinear integral equations. Numerical experiments are presented to verify the validity and effectiveness of the proposed numerical algorithm. The impact of different parameters involved in the algorithm is also discussed.</p>