Solution

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Let be a local fundamental pair at zero, including a logarithmic Frobenius solution if the exponents are resonant. Any other independent pair on a common branch domain has and with constant coefficients and . Bilinearity and antisymmetry of the Wronskian give
Thus changing the independent branches multiplies the principal-pair Wronskian by a nonzero constant, once the branches are continued onto the same domain.

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