Differential equations with indefinite weight: Boundary value problems and qualitative properties of the solutions

Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 265-295

  Papini, Duccio ^a   Zanolin, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

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