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Limit Point and Limit Circle Criteria for a Class of Singular Symmetric Differential Operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Robert L. Anderson
Robert L. Anderson*
Affiliation:
Deering Milliken Service Corporation, Spartanburg, South Carolina
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For certain classes of singular symmetric differential operators L of order 2n, this paper considers the problem of determining sufficient conditions for L to be of limit point type or of limit circle type. The operator discussed here is defined by

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 28 , Issue 5 , 01 October 1976 , pp. 905 - 914
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1976

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