Orthogonality of Sturm-Liouville eigenfunctions

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Orthogonality of Sturm-Liouville eigenfunctions by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-07
For a regular self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville problem with positive weight and self-adjoint boundary conditions, eigenfunctions with distinct eigenvalues are orthogonal in the weighted inner product . Integration by parts proves this by equating and .

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