Positive eigenvalues of second order boundary value problems and a theorem of M. G. Krein

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 130, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 3005-3015

  Clark, Steve ^a   Hinton, Don ^a  

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

Author keywords

Opial inequality; Positive eigenvalues; Stable boundedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036787012     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06392-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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