Zur Regularität Selbstadjungierter Randwertaufgaben

In this note we derive a necessary requirement for the self-adjointness of a boundary value problem of ordinary differential equations, which involves only the leading coefficients of the normalized boundary conditions. As application it is shown that every self-adjoint boundary value problem of even order (and thus especially every real self-adjoint boundary value problem) is regular. The proof of this fact depends on the evaluation of a sort of generalized Vandermonde's determinant.