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On the Nature of the Spectrum of Singular Second Order Linear Differential Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

E. A. Coddington
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Let p(x) > 0, q(x) be two real-valued continuous functions on . Suppose that the differential equation with the real parameter λ

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1951

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