Factoring linear differential operators on measure chains

DOI10.1155/S1025583401000170MaRDI QIDQ5952857zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lynn Erbe, Ronald M. Mathsen, Allan Peterson

Publication date 10 December 2002

Published in Journal of Inequalities and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/122227

zbMATH Keywords

Abel's theoremdisconjugacymeasure chain (time scale)Polya factorizationTrench factorizationWronskian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation theory, zeros, disconjugacy and comparison theory for ordinary differential equations (34C10) Transformation and reduction of ordinary differential equations and systems, normal forms (34C20) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Difference operators (39A70)

Review text

This paper contains fundamental results on the existence of positive solutions to an \(n\)th-order disconjugate dynamic equation on a measure chain (time scale) \({\mathbb T}\). In particular, Abel's theorem, the Polya factorization, and the Trench factorization are provided for this general case, thus extending and unifying the classical results of \textit{G. Pólya} [American M. S. Trans. 24, 312-324 (1924; JFM 50.0299.02)] and \textit{W. F. Trench} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 189, 319-327 (1974; Zbl 0289.34051)] for differential equations \((\mathbb{T}=\mathbb{R})\) and of \textit{P. Hartman} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 246, 1-30 (1978; Zbl 0409.39001)] and \textit{R. J. Krueger} [Disconjugacy of \(n\)th-order linear difference equations, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1988) and Math. Comput. Modelling 32, No. 5-6, 549-564 (2000; Zbl 0970.39001)] for difference equations (\(\mathbb{T}=\mathbb{Z}\)). These results are important tools in the oscillation and spectral theories of dynamic equations. For example, the Trench factorization implies the existence of a principal system of solutions. This excellent paper will be very useful for researchers interested in qualitative theory of differential, difference, and/or dynamic equations.

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