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| | Muzzulini,M |
 | | Separation of independent variables is a well-known technique for ``solving'' PDEs, or more precisely, for reducing their solution to a family of ODEs containing parameters coupling them. |
 | | In a spectral theoretical context, the following natural question arises: Suppose that a formally selfadjoint elliptic differential expression has been decomposed into a family of formally selfadjoint ODE differential expressions (coupled by parameters) by separation of variables, and that selfadjoint extensions of the corresponding minimal ODE operators have been selected. |
 | | Under which condition is there a ``natural'' way of using these selfadjoint operators to define a selfadjoint realization of the given elliptic expression? |
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