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The Schwarzian Derivative and Disconjugacy of nth order Linear Differential Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Meira Lavie
Meira Lavie*
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Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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In this paper we deal with the number of zeros of a solution of the nth order linear differential equation

1.1

where the functions pj(z) (j = 0, 1, …, n – 2) are assumed to be regular in a given domain D of the complex plane. The differential equation (1.1) is called disconjugate in D, if no (non-trivial) solution of (1.1) has more than (n – 1) zeros in D. (The zeros are counted by their multiplicity.)

The ideas of this paper are related to those of Nehari (7; 9) on second order differential equations. In (7), he pointed out the following basic relationship. The function

1.2

where y1(z) and y2(z) are two linearly independent solutions of

1.3

is univalent in D, if and only if no solution of equation(1.3) has more than one zero in D, i.e., if and only if(1.3) is disconjugate in D.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 21 , 1969 , pp. 235 - 249
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1969

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