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12.—Rotation Properties of Adjoint Pairs of Differential Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

Kurt Kreith
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis

Synopsis

A large class of self-adjoint fourth-order differential equations has the property that if one solution is oscillatory then all solutions are oscillatory. This paper establishes necessary and sufficient conditions for this property to hold for a corresponding class of non-self-adjoint differential equations.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1976

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