Hostname: page-component-84b7d79bbc-c654p Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-30T12:01:33.207Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Comparison theorems of Hille-Wintner type for third order linear differential equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

L. Erbe
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2GI, Canada.
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Integral comparison theorems of Hille-Wintner type of second order linear equations are shown to be valid for the third order linear equation y‴ + q(t)y = 0.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1980

References

[1]Barrett, John H., “Oscillation theory of ordinary linear differential equations”, Adv. in Math. 3 (1969), 415509.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[2]Erbe, Lynn, “Disconjugacy conditions for the third order linear differential equation”, Canad. Math. Bull. 12 (1969), 603613.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[3]Etgen, G.J. and Shih, C.D., “Disconjugacy and oscillation of third order differential equations with nonnegative coefficients”, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (1973), 577582.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[4]Etgen, G.J. and Shih, C.D., “On the oscillation of certain third order linear differential equations”, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (1973), 151155.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[5]Etgen, G.J. and Shih, C.D., “Conditions for the nonoscillation of third order differential equations with nonnegative coefficients”, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 6 (1975), 18.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[6]Hallam, Thomas G., “Asymptotic behavior of the solutions of an nth order nonhomogeneous ordinary differential equation”, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 122 (1966), 177194.Google Scholar
[7]Hanan, Maurice, “Oscillation criteria for third-order linear differential equations”, Pacific J. Math. 11 (1961), 919944.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[8]Hille, Einar, “Non-oscillation theorems”, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 64 (1948), 234252.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[9]Jones, Gary D., “Properties of solutions of a class of third-order differential equations”, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 48 (1974), 165169.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[10]Jones, Gary D., “An asymptotic property of solutions of y + p + qy = 0”, Pacific J. Math. 47 (1973), 135138.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[11]Lazer, A.C., “The behavior of solutions of the differential equation y + p(x)y′ + q(x)y = 0”, Pacific J. Math. 17 (1966), 435466.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[12]Levin, A.Yu., “A comparison principle for second-order differential equations”, Soviet Math. Dokl. 1 (1960), 13131316.Google Scholar
[13]Levin, A.Ju., “Some problems bearing on the oscillation of solutions of linear differential equations”, Soviet Math. Dokl. 4 (1963), 121124.Google Scholar
[14]Swanson, C.A., Comparison and oscillation theory of linear differential equations (Mathematics in Science and Engineering, 48. Academic Press, New York and London, 1968).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[15]Wintner, Aurel, “On the comparison theorem of Kneser-Hille”, Math. Scand. 5 (1957), 255260.CrossRefGoogle Scholar