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Oscillation of Elliptic Equations in General Domains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

E. S. Noussair*
Affiliation:
The University of New South Wales, Kensington, N.S.W., Australia
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Oscillation criteria will be obtained for the linear elliptic partial differential equation

in an unbounded domain G of general type in n-dimensional Euclidean space En. The differential operator D is defined as usual by

where each α (i), i = 1, … , n, is a non-negative integer.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

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