Weyl-Titchmarsh Theory for Schrodinger Operators with Strongly Singular Potentials

Abstract

We develop Weyl–Titchmarsh theory for Schrödinger operators with strongly singular potentials such as perturbed spherical Schrödinger operators (also known as Bessel operators). It is known that in such situations, one can still define a corresponding singular Weyl m-function and it was recently shown that there is also an associated spectral transformation. Here, we will give a general criterion when the singular Weyl function can be analytically extended to the upper half plane. We will derive an integral representation for this singular Weyl function and give a criterion when it is a generalized Nevanlinna function. Moreover, we will show how essential supports for the Lebesgue decomposition of the spectral measure can be obtained from the boundary behavior of the singular Weyl function. Finally, we will prove a local Borg–Marchenko type uniqueness result. Our criteria will in particular cover the aforementioned case of perturbed spherical Schrödinger operators.