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On the Ordering of Multi-Point Boundary Value Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

A. C. Peterson
A. C. Peterson*
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University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
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We are concerned with the nth-order linear differential equation

1

where the coefficients are continuous. Aliev [1, 2] showed, in papers unavailable to the author that for n = 4

(see Definition 2). Theorems 1 and 5 give respectively nth-order generalizations of these two results.

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Research Article
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , December 1970 , pp. 507 - 513
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1970

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