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An Improved Wintner Oscillation Criterion for Second Order Linear Differential Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

George W. Johnson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C. 29208, USA
Jurang Yan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics Shanxi University Taiyuan, China & Department of Mathematics And Statistics University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C. 29208USA
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Abstract

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An iterative technique is used to establish an oscillation theorem for the equation x″+ a(t)x=0 which relaxes the condition that a(t) satisfy

without the restriction that

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1984

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