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Deficiency indices of an odd-order differential operator
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2011
Synopsis
We obtain asymptotic solutions of odd-order formally self-adjoint differential equations with power coefficients and discuss possible values for the deficiency indices of the associated operators.
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- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 97 , 1984 , pp. 223 - 231
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- Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1984
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