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On systems-disconjugacy and a question of Barrett

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Allan Edelson  and
Kurt Kreith
Allan Edelson
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
Kurt Kreith
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
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Synopsis

In answer to a question raised by John Barrett in 1961, conditions are established under which the existence of a systems-conjugate point of a fourth-order equation also assures the existence of a 2–2 conjugate point. These results lead to new conjugacy criteria and apply to certain non-selfadjoint equations more general than those previously considered.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 78 , Issue 3-4 , 1978 , pp. 219 - 224
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1978

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