An oscillation condition for differential equations of arbitrary order
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Abstract:
In separate papers, D. L. Lovelady has related oscillation of solutions of certain linear differential equations of odd order $\geqslant 3$ and even order $\geqslant 4$ to oscillation of an associated second order equation. This paper presents a unified proof of Lovelady’s results for equations of arbitrary order $\geqslant 3$. The results are somewhat more detailed and the equations need not be linear.References
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- © Copyright 1981 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 82 (1981), 548-552
- MSC: Primary 34C10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1981-0614876-4
- MathSciNet review: 614876