Homogeneous trees of second order Sturm-Liouville equations: A general theory and program

The purpose of this text is to set up a few basic notions concerning quantum graphs, to indicate some areas addressed in the quantum graph research, and to provide some pointers to the literature. The pointers in many cases are secondary, i.e. they refer to surveys in [77] or elsewhere.

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