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The Self-Adjoint Second-Order Differential Equation

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In this chapter we are concerned with the second-order (formally) selfadjoint linear differential equation

$$(p(t)x^\prime)^\prime + q(t)x = h(t).$$

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Kelley, W.G., Peterson, A.C. (2010). The Self-Adjoint Second-Order Differential Equation. In: The Theory of Differential Equations. Universitext, vol 0. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5783-2_5

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