Solution

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Suppose and are two bound-state solutions with the same energy. Their Wronskian
satisfies because the Schrodinger equation contains no first-derivative term. Hence is constant. Both wavefunctions and their derivatives decay at infinity, so there and therefore . The two solutions are linearly dependent. Thus every one-dimensional bound-state energy is nondegenerate.

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