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Spectral exactness and spectral inclusion for singular left-definite Sturm-Liouville problems

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We study the approximation of the discrete and continuous spectrum of singular left-definite Sturm-Liouville problems with eigenvalues of regular problems on truncated intervals.

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Marietta, M., Zettl, A. Spectral exactness and spectral inclusion for singular left-definite Sturm-Liouville problems. Results. Math. 45, 299–308 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03323384

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