The periodic Euler-Bernoulli equation

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 355, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 3727-3759

  Papanicolaou, Vassilis G ^a,b  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Algebraic geometric multiplicity; Beam operator; Euler Bernoulli equation for the vibrating beam; Floquet spectrum; Hill operator; Multipoint eigenvalue problem; Pseudospectrum

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041362004     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03315-4     Document Type: Article

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