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Riccati inequality and oscillation criteria for PDE with -Laplacian

Journal of Inequalities and Applications20062006:63061

https://doi.org/10.1155/JIA/2006/63061

©  Zhiting Xu 2006

Received: 1 November 2003

Accepted: 25 December 2004

Published: 5 March 2006

Abstract

Oscillation criteria for PDE with -Laplacian div are obtained via Riccati inequality. Some of them are extensions of the results for the second-order linear ODE to this equation.

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Authors’ Affiliations

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Department of Mathematics, South China Normal University

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