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Ordinary Differential Operators
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Aiping Wang, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China and Anton Zettl, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Publication: Mathematical Surveys and Monographs
Publication Year:
2019; Volume 245
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-5366-4 (print); 978-1-4704-5430-2 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/surv/245
MathSciNet review: 3970972
MSC: Primary 34-02; Secondary 34B05, 34B24, 47B25, 47E05
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Front/Back Matter
Differential equations and expressions
- First order systems
- Quasi-differential expressions and equations
- The Lagrange identity and maximal and minimal operators
- Deficiency indices
Symmetric, self-adjoint, and dissipative operators
- Regular symmetric operators
- Singular symmetric operators
- Self-adjoint operators
- Self-adjoint and symmetric boundary conditions
- Solutions and spectrum
- Coefficients, the deficiency index, spectrum
- Dissipative operators
Two-interval problems
- Two-interval symmetric domains
- Two-interval symmetric domain characterization with maximal domain functions
Other topics
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