Definiteness of quadratic functionals

Analysis (Germany)

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 163-184

  Kratz, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

conjoined basis; definiteness; disconjugacy; focal point; Hamiltonian differential system; nonnegativity; quadratic functional

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748265382     PISSN: 01744747     EISSN: 21966753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/anly.2003.23.2.163     Document Type: Article

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