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The homogeneous equation is a Cauchy-Euler equation. Trying $y=x^m$ gives the repeated indicial rootHence, for $x>0$,Both independent solutions diverge at the origin, so no nonzero homogeneous combination satisfies the zero-origin conditions by continuous extension.

For a source point $\xi >0$, finiteness on $0<x<\xi$ forces the Green function to vanish on that side. On $x>\xi$, continuity and the unit first-derivative jump requireUsing the homogeneous solutions gives the causal Green function for a repeated-root Euler operatorIndeed, the Wronskian of $x^{-1}$ and $x^{-1}\log x$ is $x^{-3}$, and direct differentiation gives $G_x({\xi }^{+},\xi )=1$. Since $G$ is continuous, its second derivative produces precisely a unit Dirac delta, with no derivative of a delta. For each positive source it is identically zero near the origin, so both required origin values vanish. The differential operator itself is interpreted on $x>0$; no value of its singular coefficients at zero is needed.

Integrating against the forcing yieldsThe last integral equals $1/16$, by integration by parts or differentiating ${\int }_0^1{s}^{p}ds=1/(p+1)$. ConsequentlySubstitution gives $y^{\prime \prime }+3y^{\prime }/x+y/x^2=(6+9+1)x/16=x$, while $y(0)=y^{\prime }(0)=0$. The divergent homogeneous solutions prove uniqueness in the regular class. No boundary condition at infinity was imposed or required.

Choose the causal Green function convention $L_{x}G(x,\xi )=\delta (x-\xi )$ for each source point $\xi >0$, with $G(x,\xi )=0$ when $x<\xi$. This automatically gives the two zero-origin limits. The kernel is continuous at $x=\xi$, and integrating its equation across the source requires the unit derivative jump ${\partial }_{x}G({\xi }^{+},\xi )-{\partial }_{x}G({\xi }^{-},\xi )=1$.

For $x>\xi$, the homogeneous basis from part (a) gives a continuous kernel proportional to $x^r\log (x/\xi )$. Its derivative at $x=\xi$ is ${\xi }^{r-1}$, so the normalization is ${\xi }^{1-r}$. Hence the causal Green function for a repeated-root Euler operator isThe same formula follows from $[y_1(\xi )y_2(x)-y_2(\xi )y_1(x)]/W(\xi )$ on the right of the source, with $W(\xi )={\xi }^{-\alpha }$.

The singular endpoint matters for uniqueness. If $\alpha <-1$, then $r>1$, and both $x^r$ and $x^r\log x$, together with their first derivatives, vanish at zero. Adding any source-dependent linear combination of these homogeneous solutions to $G$ preserves the two stated origin conditions. Thus those conditions alone do not determine a unique Green's function in that parameter range. The causal requirement used here selects the displayed kernel. For $\alpha \ge -1$ no nonzero homogeneous solution satisfies both zero-origin limits, so this ambiguity is absent.