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An integral inequality with an application to ordinary differential operators*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

W. N. Everitt
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee

Synopsis

This paper is concerned with integral inequalities of the form

where p, q are real-valued coefficients, with p and w non-negative, on the compact interval [a, b] and D is a linear manifold of functions so chosen that all three integrals are absolutely convergent.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1978

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