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Relations Between Boundary Value Functions for a Nonlinear Differential Equation and its Variational Equations*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

James D. Spencer
James D. Spencer*
Affiliation:
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana71270
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We consider here the nonlinear differential equation

(1.1)

where x ∊l= [a, ∞). We will make the following assumptions

  1. (A) f is continuous on [a, ∞) × Rn,

  2. (B) solutions of initial value problems (I.V.P.'s) are unique and extend throughout [a, ∞).

  3. (C)

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1975 , pp. 269 - 276
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

Footnotes

*

The results presented here were part of the author's Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska, August, 1973. The author gratefully acknowledges the guidance of his advisor, Professor Allan C. Peterson.

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