A Picard method without Lipschitz continuity for some ordinary differential equations (Q1364293)

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A Picard method without Lipschitz continuity for some ordinary differential equations
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    A Picard method without Lipschitz continuity for some ordinary differential equations (English)
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    9 June 1998
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    Consider an initial value problem to the scalar differential equation \(y^{(m)} (x)= f(x,y)\) where \(f\) may fail to be Lipschitzian in \(y\) or even to be continuous. The author derives conditions on \(f\) (which imply e.g. a certain asymptotic behavior in \(x\)) such that existence and uniqueness can be proved by means of a modified Picard iteration.
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    initial value problem
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    scalar differential equation
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    modified Picard iteration
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