Singular Sturmian separation theorems for nonoscillatory symplectic difference systems

Abstract

ABSTRACTIn this paper, we derive new singular Sturmian separation theorems for nonoscillatory symplectic difference systems on unbounded intervals. The novelty of the presented theory resides in two aspects. We introduce the multiplicity of a focal point at infinity for conjoined bases, which we incorporate into our new singular Sturmian separation theorems. At the same time we do not impose any controllability assumption on the symplectic system. The presented results naturally extend and complete the known Sturmian separation theorems on bounded intervals by J. V. Elyseeva [Comparative index for solutions of symplectic difference systems, Differential Equations 45(3) (2009), pp. 445–459, translated from Differencial'nyje Uravnenija 45 (2009), no. 3, 431–444], as well as the singular Sturmian separation theorems for eventually controllable symplectic systems on unbounded intervals by O. Došlý and J. Elyseeva [Singular comparison theorems for discrete symplectic systems, J. Difference Equ. Appl. 20(8) (2014), pp. 1268–1288]. Our approach is based on developing the theory of comparative index on unbounded intervals and on the recent theory of recessive and dominant solutions at infinity for possibly uncontrollable symplectic systems by the authors [P. Šepitka and R. Šimon Hilscher, Recessive solutions for nonoscillatory discrete symplectic systems, Linear Algebra Appl. 469 (2015), pp. 243–275; P. Šepitka and R. Šimon Hilscher, Dominant and recessive solutions at infinity and genera of conjoined bases for discrete symplectic systems, J. Difference Equ. Appl. 23(4) (2017), pp. 657–698]. Some of our results, including the notion of the multiplicity of a focal point at infinity, are new even for an eventually controllable symplectic difference system.