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The Picone identity for self-adjoint differential equations of even order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

M. S. P. Eastham
Affiliation:
Chelsea College, Manresa Road, London, S.W.3.
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The Picone identity which occurs in the oscillation theory of second-order ordinary differential equations is

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Research Article
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Copyright © University College London 1973

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