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An integral equation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

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1. The integral equation

where x, f (x), and λ are real and α positive, may be regarded as a differential equation of order α. Suppose for example that α is a positive integer p, that f (x) tends to 0, when x → ∞, with sufficient rapidity, and that

Then, if we integrate repeatedly by parts, and write z for fp (x), (1·1) becomes

The only solutions are finite combinations of exponentials.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1932

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