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On some aspects of oscillation theory and geometry
About this Title
Bruno Bianchini, Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Università degli Studi di Padova, Via Trieste 63, I-35121 Padova, Italy, Luciano Mari, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Saldini 50, I-20133 Milano, Italy and Marco Rigoli, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Saldini 50, I-20133 Milano, Italy
Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year:
2013; Volume 225, Number 1056
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-8799-8 (print); 978-1-4704-1056-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0065-9266-2012-00681-2
Published electronically: December 13, 2012
Keywords: Oscillation,
spectral theory,
index,
Schrodinger operator,
uncertainty principle,
compactness,
immersions,
comparison
MSC: Primary 34K11, 58C40, 35J15; Secondary 35J10, 53C21, 57R42.
Table of Contents
Chapters
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Geometric setting
- 3. Some geometric examples related to oscillation theory
- 4. On the solutions of the ODE $(vz’)’+Avz=0$
- 5. Below the critical curve
- 6. Exceeding the critical curve
- 7. Much above the critical curve
Abstract
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