This document introduces to Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problems, regular, singular and periodic, to find eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of partial differential equations. In introduces the concept of orthogonality of eigenfunctions. Then it focuses on how to generate the generalised Fourier series ...
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as a Fourier Series
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RECAP LinearAlgebra
For symmetric nxn matrixA we have Ayn than for EIGENVALUES In and EIGENVECTORS In
Can show
1 In are real
2 If An dm then In am o eigenvectorarrespondind todistinct eigenvaluesare orthogonal
3 Normalised eigenvectors
form an ORTHNORMAL basisfor IR sit anyvectorb in IR can bewritten
as I Ejakkk
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So the eigenvalue problem Ay ta can bethought as a mean
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basis In We want to generalise theseideasto differentialoperatorsacting onspaces
of eigenvectors
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DEFINITION
Given a real vector space V the operation L Viv IR is called an INNERPRODUCT
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Can we extend the concept ofsymmetry
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, DEFINITION
An operator L V V is called SELFADJOINT wrt the innerproduct c iff
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