Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2002/ib/paper-1/18d/b/solution

For a negative energy write , . Away from the delta interaction the decaying solutions are for and for , with the same by continuity. The derivative jump is , giving . Thus the bound state in a delta potential has
The normalization follows from . This is a genuine square-integrable negative-energy state.

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