Nonlinear Oscillation of Fourth Order Differential Equations

Kusano, Takaŝi ; Naito, Manabu

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 28 (1976) no. 4, pp. 840-852

Résumé

In this paper we are concerned with the fourth order nonlinear differential equation where the following conditions are always assumed to hold:(a) r(t) is continuous and positive for t ≠ 0, and

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-1976-081-0

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