Let us once again confine our attention to the region, 
The wave function for this region is given by
where 
and 
By Bloch's theorem, the full wave function must have the form,
Continuity of 
and 
at 
requires that
and
The periodicity of 
and continuity of and at 
gives us
and
We have thus obtained four linear equations in 
and 
To derive the condition under which these equations have a nontrivial solution, we first eliminate 
and 
and then determine when the resulting 
system has nontrivial solutions; this yields the condition,
where 
is the width of the "barrier" parts of the potential. This, along with the equation,
yields the energy spectrum of the system.
If we take the limit 
and 
in such a way as to keep 
finite, then we can obtain:
In this limit,
and
Our equations then reduce to, noting that 
in this limit,
This is just the equation that we obtained for the Dirac comb potential; note that, here, stands for the 
in the Dirac comb problem described earlier.
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