Linear differential equations where nonoscillation is equivalent to eventual disconjugacy
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Abstract:
Conditions on $n$th order linear differential equations are given which imply that nonoscillation is equivalent to eventual disconjugacy. These conditions are in the form of assumptions that certain boundary-value functions are infinite for all values of the argument.References
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- © Copyright 1975 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 49 (1975), 366-372
- MSC: Primary 34C10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1975-0364759-X
- MathSciNet review: 0364759