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Positive functionals and oscillation criteria for second order differential systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Garret J. Etgen  and
Roger T. Lewis
Garret J. Etgen
Affiliation:
University of Houston
Roger T. Lewis
Affiliation:
University of Alabama in Birmingham
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Let ℋ be a Hilbert space, let ℬ = (ℋ, ℋ) be the B*-algebra of bounded linear operators from ℋ to ℋ with the uniform operator topology, and let ℒ be the subset of ℬ consisting of the self-adjoint operators. This article is concerned with the second order self-adjoint differential equation

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , October 1979 , pp. 277 - 290
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1979

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