Simplicity and Finiteness of Discrete Spectrum of the Benjamin-Ono Scattering Operator

A spectral analysis is done on the $L$ operator of the Lax pair for the Benjamin--Ono equation. Simplicity and finiteness of the discrete spectrum are established as are needed for the Fokas and Ablowitz inverse scattering transform scheme. A crucial step in the simplicity proof is the discovery of a new identity connecting the $L^2$ norm of the eigenvector to its inner product with the scattering potential. The proof for finiteness is an extension of the ideas involved in the Birman--Schwinger bound for Schrodinger operators.

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