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The Oscillation of Fourth Order Linear Differential Operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Roger T. Lewis
Roger T. Lewis*
Affiliation:
Slippery Rock State College, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
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Define the self-adjoint operator

where r(x) > 0 on (0, ∞) and q and p are real-valued. The coefficient q is assumed to be differentiate on (0, ∞) and r is assumed to be twice differentia t e on (0, ∞).

The oscillatory behavior of L4 as well as the general even order operator has been considered by Leigh ton and Nehari [5], Glazman [2], Reid [7], Hinton [3], Barrett [1], Hunt and Namb∞diri [4], Schneider [8], and Lewis [6].

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , 01 February 1975 , pp. 138 - 145
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

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