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Our goal in the near future is to find and catagorize those boundary value problems which have orthogonal polynomial solutions, but first we must define what we mean by “orthogonal polynomials,” and in order to do so we need some concepts from the theory of distributions.
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Krall, A.M. (2002). Distributions. In: Hilbert Space, Boundary Value Problems and Orthogonal Polynomials. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, vol 133. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8155-5_12
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