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Eigenvalues of a Sturm-Liouville problem and inequalities of Lyapunov type
Author(s):
Chung-Wei
Ha
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
126
(1998),
3507-3511.
MSC (1991):
Primary 34L15, 34L20
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Abstract:
We consider the eigenvalue problem in , , where keeps a fixed sign and , and we obtain some lower and upper bounds for in terms of its nonnegative eigenvalues . Two typical results are: (1) if and is not the square of a positive integer; (2) if is the smallest eigenvalue.
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Chung-Wei
Ha
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan
Email:
cwha@math.nthu.edu.tw
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-98-05010-2
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S 0002-9939(98)05010-2
Received by editor(s):
September 23, 1996
Communicated by:
Hal L. Smith
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1998,
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