Weak boundary value problem with an inverse-square potential

On $H=\{v\in H^1(0,1):v(0)=0\}$, the formis bounded and coercive. The Hardy inequality on an interval controls its singular term, while the one-sided Poincare inequality controls the first-order term. Thus the Lax-Milgram theorem gives a unique weak solution for every functional $v\mapsto {\int }_0^1(f/x)(v/x)$ with $f/x\in L^2(0,1)$.