The Sturm-Liouville inverse spectral problem with boundary conditions depending on the spectral parameter

Abstract

We present the complete version including proofs of the results announced in [1]. Namely, for the problem of small transversal vibrations of a damped string of nonuniform stiffness with one end fixed we give the description of the spectrum and solve the inverse problem: find the conditions which should be satisfied by a sequence of complex numbers to be the spectrum of a damped string.