“…We investigate the spectral properties of the classical Kreȋn-Feller operator ∆ for weak Gibbs measures on self-conformal fractals contained in the open unit interval with and without overlaps (see 4) under Dirichlet boundary conditions. Spectral properties of the operator ∆ have attracted much attention in the last century, beginning with Feller [Fel57], Kac [Kac59], Hong and Uno [UH59], McKean and Ray [MR62], Kotani and Watanabe [KW82], Fujita [Fuj87], Solomyak and Verbitsky [SV95] and more recently by Vladimirov and Sheȋpak [VS13], Faggionato [Fag12], Arzt [Arz14;Arz15], Ngai [Nga11], Ngai, Tang and Xie [NTX18; NX20] and Freiberg, Minorics [Min20;FM19].…”