A comparison theorem

DOI10.1016/0022-247X(85)90142-8MaRDI QIDQ5902727zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Walter Leighton

Publication date 1985

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-247x(85)90142-8

zbMATH Keywords

conjugate pointnonnull solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation theory, zeros, disconjugacy and comparison theory for ordinary differential equations (34C10)

Review text

The principal result in this note is the following: If \[ \int^{(b/2)+h}_{(b/2)-h}[p(x)-(\pi^ 2/b^ 2)]dx\geq 0 \] for each h, \(0<h\leq b/2\), a nonnull solution y(x) of \(y+p(x)y=0\), \(y(0)=0\), must have a zero \(x=c\) on (0,b] with \(c<b\) unless \(p(x)\equiv \pi^ 2/b^ 2\).

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