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Normalize the second-order equation as $y^{\prime \prime }+P(z)y^{\prime }+Q(z)y=0$, with $P,Q$ holomorphic at all finite nonzero points. The regular singular point criterion for a second-order equation at zero says that $zP(z)$ and $z^{2}Q(z)$ extend holomorphically across zero.

To impose the condition at infinity, set $w=1/z$ and $Y(w)=y(1/w)$. Since $y^{\prime }=-w^2{Y}^{\prime }$ and $y^{\prime \prime }=w^4{Y}^{\prime \prime }+2w^3{Y}^{\prime }$, the transformed equation isRegular singularity at $w=0$ makes $2-P(1/w)/w$ and $Q(1/w)/w^2$ bounded and holomorphic there. Equivalently $zP(z)$ and $z^{2}Q(z)$ are bounded at infinity. They are entire functions by the zero-endpoint condition, so Liouville's theorem makes both constants. The Euler-Cauchy classification from two regular singular points is thereforeConversely these equations have ordinary coefficients everywhere on ${\mathbb{C}}^{\ast }$ and meet both regular-singularity bounds. If “regular singular” is required to exclude an ordinary point, omit $(A,B)=(0,0)$, which makes zero ordinary, and $(2,0)$, which makes infinity ordinary. Under the common “at worst regular singular” convention these two cases are included. Multiplication by a nonvanishing coefficient does not change the normalized equation or this classification.