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A Singular Boundary Value Problem for a Non-Self-Adjoint Differential Operator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

R. R. D. Kemp*
Affiliation:
Queen's University Kingston
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If the differential expression l(y) = — y” + g(x)y generates a closed operator L on L2(— ∞, ∞), with domain D consisting of those functions yL2 with absolutely continuous derivatives and such that l(y) ∈ L2. The case where g(x) is real-valued has been extensively investigated and yields an expansion of any ƒL2 in terms of the characteristic functions of L. We shall investigate the case where g is complex-valued.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1958

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