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Odd-order differential expressions with positive supporting coefficients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Bernd Schultze
Affiliation:
Fachbereich 6-Mathematik, Universität GH Essen, Universitätsstrasse 3, 4300 Essen, F.R.G

Synopsis

The deficiency indices (mean deficiency index) and the essential spectrum for a class of odd order ordinary differential expressions are determined. The considered expressions are relatively bounded or relatively compact perturbations of symmetric expressions with odd order terms having as coefficients real powers of the independent variable.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1987

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