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Properties of the map associated with recovering of the Sturm-Liouville operator by its spectral function. Uniform stability in the scale of Sobolev spaces

Denote by $L_D$ the Sturm-Liouville operator $Ly=-y" +q(x)y$ on the finite interval $[0,π]$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions $y(0)=y(π)=0$. Let $\{λ_k\}_1^\infty$ and $\{α_k\}_1^\infty$ be the sequences of the eigenvalues and norming constants of this operator. For all $θ\geqslant 0$ we study the map $F: W_2^θ \to l_D^θ$ defined by $F(σ) =\{s_k\}_1^\infty$. Here $σ= \int q $ is the primitive of $q$, $\bold s = \{s_k\}_1^\infty$ be regularized spectral data defined by $s_{2k} =\sqrt{λ_k}-k,\ s_{2k-1}=α_k-π/2$ and $l_D^θ$ are special Hilbert spaces which are constructed in the paper as finite dimensional extensions of the usual weighted $l_2$ spaces. We give a complete characterization of the image of this nonlinear operator, show that it is locally invertible analytic map, find explicit form of its Frechet derivative. The main result of the paper are the uniform estimates of the form $\|σ-σ_1\|_θ\asymp \|\bold s -\bold s_1\|_θ$, provided that the spectral data $\bold s$ and $\bold s_1$ run through special convex sets in the spaces $l_D^θ$.