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The distribution of zeros of solutions of first order functional differential equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Yong Zhou
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Xiangtan University, Hunan 411105, People's Republic of China
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Abstract

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In this paper, we establish some estimates for the distance between adjacent zeros of the solutions of the first order delay differential equation

and the first order advanced differential equation

where PC([t0, ∞), [0, ∞)) and τ ∈ R+. Our results improve recent results in the literature.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1999

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