Abstract:
In this paper we investigate the spectrum of the differential operator $T$ generated by an ordinary differential expression of order $n$ with PT-symmertic periodic $m\times m$ matrix coefficients. We prove that if $m$ and $n$ are odd numbers, then the spectrum of $T$ contains all real line. Note that in standard quantum theory, observable systems must be Hermitian operators, so that make sure the spectrum is real. Research on PT-symmetric quantum theory is based on the observation that the spectrum of a PT-symmetric non-self-adjoint operator can contain real numbers. In this paper we discover a large class of PT-symmetric operators whose spectrum contains all real axes. Moreover, the proof is very short.
Keywords:Differential operator, PT-symmetric coefficients, Real spectrum.
Citation:
O. A. Veliev, “On the differential operators of odd order with PT-symmetric periodic matrix coefficients”, Funktsional. Anal. i Prilozhen., 58:4 (2024), 142–147