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On the dirichlet index conjecture

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  • Dirichlet Form
  • Minimal Operator
  • Ordinary Differential Operator
  • Deficiency Index
  • Lebesgue Integrable Function

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Brown, R.C., Hinton, D. (1987). On the dirichlet index conjecture. In: Knowles, I.W., Saitō, Y. (eds) Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0080579

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