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Oscillatory properties of solutions of certain elliptic equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Norio Yoshida
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsFaculty of Science Toyama UniversityToyama 930, Japan
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Abstract

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Certain elliptic equations of higher order are studied and a sufficient condition is given that every solution is oscillatory in an exterior domain. The principal tool is an averaging technique which enables one to reduce the n–dimensional problem to a one-dimensional problem.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1992

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