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Minors of the wronskian of the differential equation Lny+p(x)y=0

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Uri Elias
Uri Elias
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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Synopsis

The equation studied here is Lny +p(x)y = 0, where Ln is a disconjugate differential operator and p(x) is of a fixed sign. It is shown that certain minors of the wronskian of this equation satisfy a very similar differential equation Mnz +p(x)z =0. We prove that some properties of the original equation which are essential for oscillation theory are inherited by the solutions of the second one.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 106 , Issue 3-4 , 1987 , pp. 341 - 359
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1987

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