Picone-type theorems for semidiscrete hyperbolic equations

Picone-type theorems for semidiscrete hyperbolic equations
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 88 (1983), 436-438 Request permission

A comparison theorem of Picone-type is established for hyperbolic boundary value problems by means of a semidiscrete approximation.

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