The \((n,n)\)-disconjugacy of a \(2n\)-th order linear difference equation

DOI10.1016/0898-1221(94)00088-3zbMath0815.39003OpenAlexW2006772497MaRDI QIDQ1334554

Calvin D. Ahlbrandt, Allan C. Peterson

Publication date: 21 September 1994

Published in: Computers \& Mathematics with Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0898-1221(94)00088-3

zbMATH Keywords

disconjugacyeven order formally self-adjoint scalar difference equationssingular discrete linear Hamiltonian systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete-time control/observation systems (93C55) Additive difference equations (39A10)

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