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22.—A Critical Class of Examples concerning the Integrable-square Classification of Ordinary Differential Equations*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

W. N. Everitt
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee
M. Giertz
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Synopsis

Let the coefficient q be real-valued on the half-line [0, ∞) and let q′ be locally absolutely continuous on [0, ∞). The ordinary symmetric differential expressions M and M2 are determined by

It has been shown in a previous paper by the authors that if for non-negative numbers k and X the coefficient q satisfies the condition

then M is limit-point and M2 is limit–2 at ∞.

This paper is concerned with showing that for powers of the independent variable x the condition (*) is best possible in order that both M and M2 should have the classification at ∞ given above.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1976

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