Higher Order Dynamic Equations on Measure Chains: Wronskians, Disconjugacy, and Interpolating Families of Functions

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 246, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 639-656

  Bohner, Martin ^a   Eloe, Paul W ^b  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Time scales; measure chains; disconjugacy; Markov system; Frobenius factorization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034658763     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmaa.2000.6846     Document Type: Article

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