Singular Schroedinger operators as self-adjoint extensions of n-entire operators

We investigate the connections between Weyl-Titchmarsh-Kodaira theory for one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operators and the theory of $n$-entire operators. As our main result we find a necessary and sufficient condition for a one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operator to be $n$-entire in terms of square integrability of derivatives (w.r.t. the spectral parameter) of the Weyl solution. We also show that this is equivalent to the Weyl function being in a generalized Herglotz-Nevanlinna class. As an application we show that perturbed Bessel operators are $n$-entire, improving the previously known conditions on the perturbation.