An expression for the first conjugate point for an $n$th order nonlinear differential equation
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Abstract:
It is proved that the first conjugate point for an $n$th order nonlinear differential equation is the infimum of the first conjugate points of the corresponding variational equations.References
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- © Copyright 1976 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1976), 300-304
- MSC: Primary 34C10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1976-0427741-0
- MathSciNet review: 0427741