APPLICATION OF THE WITTRICK-WILLIAMS ALGORITHM TO THE EIGENVALUES OF THE STURM-LIOUVILLE PROBLEM ON TREES

A WATSON

WatsonA1@cardiff.ac.uk

School of Engineering
Cardiff University
PO Box 925, Cardiff, CF24 0YF, UK

A new method is presented for computing the eigenvalues of the Strum-Liouville problem on trees. This is used to confirm some recent results of Sobolev and Solomyak.