Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-algebra-analysis-and-differential-equations-1-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2009/7/solution

If two solutions exist, their difference satisfies with , where . The general solution is . The first endpoint gives and the second gives , hence . Thus the solution is unique if it exists.
For the operator , choose the homogeneous solutions and satisfying the left and right endpoint conditions. Continuity at and derivative jump yield the Dirichlet Green function
Indeed it vanishes at both endpoints and satisfies . Splitting the integral at and differentiating verifies that is twice continuously differentiable for continuous and solves the boundary-value problem, establishing existence as well.
At zero, , since . Thus

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