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Past exam of the differential equations 2 course of the University of Oxford 2021 1 a ii Solution by
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The homogeneous solution is . The left boundary condition removes , and the right boundary condition gives . Thus the kernel of a linear map associated with this boundary value problem isThe Fredholm alternative now gives the complete classification:For necessity at , multiply by the homogeneous solution and use the Lagrange identity for a Sturm-Liouville operator to obtain . For sufficiency, the particular solutionsatisfies and . At the other endpoint,which is zero under the compatibility condition. All solutions are then , with arbitrary. The assumed Lipschitz continuity of in particular makes continuous, so the displayed integral defines a classical solution. The length is excluded: it would not define a nonempty interval for this boundary value problem.
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