A Prüfer transformation for nonselfadjoint systems

Kreith, Kurt

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1972-0293216-1

A Prüfer transformation for nonselfadjoint systems
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by Kurt Kreith

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (1972), 147-151

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1972-0293216-1

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Abstract:

The Prüfer transformation has been generalized to selfadjoint matrix differential equations by J. Barrett and others. Those results are extended to nonselfadjoint abstract systems of the form considered by Kamke in the scalar case and Reid in the matrix case.

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