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Nonlinear Oscillation of Fourth Order Differential Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Takaŝi Kusano
Affiliation:
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Manabu Naito
Affiliation:
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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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

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1976

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