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A nonselfadjoint dynamical system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Kurt Kreith
Kurt Kreith
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University of California, Davis
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This paper concerns criteria for assuring that every solution of a real fourth order nonselfadjoint differential equation

is oscillatory at x = ∞. Our technique is a generalisation of that used by Whyburn (1) for the study of the selfadjoint equation,

combined with the theory of H-oscillation of vector equations as introduced by Domšlak (2) and studied by Noussair and Swanson (3). Whyburn's technique consists of representing (1.2) as a dynamical system of the form

and then studying (1.3) in terms of polar coordinates in the y, z-plane. In Section 2 below we show how to represent (1.1) as a dynamical system of the form

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 1974 , pp. 77 - 87
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1974

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