Uniform stability for the Hochstadt-Lieberman problem

Abstract

In this paper, we prove the uniform stability of the Hochstadt-Lieberman problem, which consists in the recovery of the Sturm-Liouville potential on a half-interval from the spectrum and the known potential on the other half-interval. For this purpose, we reduce the half-inverse problem to the complete one for the unknown potential. Our method relies on the uniform stability for the direct and inverse Sturm-Liouville problems, for recovering sine-type functions from their zeros, and the uniform boundedness of Riesz bases of sines and cosines.