Isospectral sets for fourth-order ordinary differential operators

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 935-966

  Caudill Jr , Lester F ^a   Perry, Peter A ^b   Schueller, Albert W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse spectral problem; Ordinary differential equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032385087     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036141096311198     Document Type: Article

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