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    This document discusses self-adjoint operators on function spaces. It defines an inner product on a real vector space and notes that a matrix is symmetric if it is equal to its transpose. An operator is self-adjoint with respect to an inner product if the inner product of the operator applied to two functions is equal to the inner product of the functions with the operator applied. As an example, the document considers an agent valve problem as a self-adjoint operator with a particular inner product.

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    This document discusses self-adjoint operators on function spaces. It defines an inner product on a real vector space and notes that a matrix is symmetric if it is equal to its transpose. An operator is self-adjoint with respect to an inner product if the inner product of the operator applied to two functions is equal to the inner product of the functions with the operator applied. As an example, the document considers an agent valve problem as a self-adjoint operator with a particular inner product.

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    This document discusses self-adjoint operators on function spaces. It defines an inner product on a real vector space and notes that a matrix is symmetric if it is equal to its transpose. An operator is self-adjoint with respect to an inner product if the inner product of the operator applied to two functions is equal to the inner product of the functions with the operator applied. As an example, the document considers an agent valve problem as a self-adjoint operator with a particular inner product.

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