TY - JOUR ID - vanderMee2005 LB - vanderMee2005 AU - van der Mee, Cornelis AU - Pivovarchik, Vjacheslav TI - The Sturm-Liouville inverse spectral problem with boundary conditions depending on the spectral parameter ST - The Sturm-Liouville inverse spectral problem with boundary conditions depending on the spectral parameter JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2005 VL - 25 IS - 2 SP - 243 EP - 260 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2005.25.2.243 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2005.25.2.243 AB - We present the complete version including proofs of the results announced in [van der Mee C., Pivovarchik V.: A Sturm-Liouville spectral problem with boundary conditions depending on the spectral parameter. Funct. Anal. Appl. 36 (2002), 315–317 [Funkts. Anal. Prilozh. 36 (2002), 74–77 (Russian)]]. 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. KW - damped vibrations KW - inhomogeneous strings KW - quadratic operator pencil KW - Hermite-Biehler functions SN - 1232-9274 ER -