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Klein's Oscillation Theorem for Periodic Boundary Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

A. Howe
A. Howe*
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T.
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Multiparameter eigenvalue problems for systems of linear differential equations with homogeneous boundary conditions have been considered by Ince [4] and Richardson [5, 6], and more recently Faierman [3] has considered their completeness and expansion theorems. A survey of eigenvalue problems with several parameters, in mathematics, is given by Atkinson [1].

We consider the two differential equations:

1a

1b

where p1’(x), q1(x), A1(x), B1(x) and p2’(y), q2(y), A2(y), B2(y) are continuous for x ∈ [a1, b1] and y ∈ [a2, b2] respectively, and p1 (x) > 0(x ∈ [a1, b1]), p2(y) > 0 (y ∈ [a2, b2]), p1(a1) = p1(b1), p2(a2) = p2(b2). The differential equations (1) will be subjected to the periodic boundary conditions.

2a

2b

Let us consider a single differential equation

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 1971 , pp. 699 - 703
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

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