Conjugacy criteria for second order differential equations

Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 849-861

  Došlý, Ondřej ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Conjugacy criteria; Conjugate points; Disconjugacy; Principal soluction

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444598060     PISSN: 00357596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1216/rmjm/1181072527     Document Type: Article

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