Solution

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Choose a left-end solution and a right-end solution . They satisfy and . Their Wronskian, with the order used here, is
The Green's function is , where and . Explicitly,
The two expressions agree at the source. Their derivative difference is , checking both normalization and sign. The first-order derivative term means the kernel need not be symmetric under exchange of and .

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