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Eventual Disconjugacy and Right Disfocality of Linear Difference Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

P. W. Eloe
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Abstract

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Let a ≧ 0, Ia = ﹛a, a + 1, …﹜ and consider the nth order linear difference m ∈ Ia, α0(m) = 1 on Ia. Summability conditions are placed on the coefficients αj(m), 1 ≦ j ≦ n, such that the equation Pu(m) = 0 is eventually disconjugate. Conditions for eventual right disfocality are also given.

Keywords

39A10
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , 01 September 1988 , pp. 362 - 373
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1988

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