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On a condition for a centre of cubic non-autonomous equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

M. A. M. Alwash
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, College of Science, University of Baghdad, Jadiryah, Baghdad, Iraq

Synopsis

In this note we demonstrate that a conjecture about a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a centre of cubic equations is not true.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1989

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