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Week 6, Lecture 3
Constant Coefficient Homogeneous High Order ODEs
Ex ,
Or generally
is a linear transformation ("linear operator").
What do we expect from ? We expect an n-dimensional vector space.
Take , guess
So we have as the general solution.
Say we have complex . Then what?