Oscillation and spectral properties of self-adjoint differential operators

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1375-1384

  Došlý, Ondřej ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Differential operators; Principal solution; Property BD; Variational method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037539249     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00197-1     Document Type: Article

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