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The form of the spectral functions associated with Dirac equations

Part of: Ordinary differential operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

S. M. Riehl
S. M. Riehl
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Department of Mathematics, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0506, U.S.A., E-mail: riehl@math.uni.edu
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§1. Introduction. In this paper, we consider the spectral functions ρα(μ) for μ ∈ R associated with a Dirac equation on [0, ∞) given by

together with the initial condition

MSC classification

Secondary: 34L40: Particular operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.)
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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 50 , Issue 1-2 , December 2003 , pp. 153 - 165
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Copyright © University College London 2003

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