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A Regular Singular Functional

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

A. D. Martin*
Affiliation:
Washington University, St. Louis and Institute for Advanced Study
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1. Introduction. In a joint paper with Leighton (2), the author considered quadratic functionals of the type

1.1 (0 < a < b)

in which x = 0 is a singular point of the functional which is otherwise regular on [0, b]. The hypothesis on a regular functional includes the assumption that r is continuous and positive on a closed interval [0, b].

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1956

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