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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2004 Paper 1 7 c Solution by
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Use the drift-removing substitution for a Dirichlet Sturm-Liouville problem, . It gives with . Positive requires ; zero or negative yields only the trivial solution under both endpoint conditions. HenceMultiplication of the original equation by gives . Thus the appropriate weighted inner product has weight , andMultiplying each eigenfunction by gives weighted norm one.
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