Given a Second-Order Ordinary Differential Equation
|
(1) |
where
and , the adjoint operator
is defined by
Write the two Linearly Independent solutions as and . Then the adjoint
operator can also be written
|
(3) |
See also Self-Adjoint Operator, Sturm-Liouville Theory
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1999-05-25