ON THE COMPLEX OSCILLATION OF HIGHER ORDER LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Title & Authors
ON THE COMPLEX OSCILLATION OF HIGHER ORDER LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Liu, Kai; Yang, Lian-Zhong;

Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the growth of solutions and the existence of subnormal solutions for a class of higher order linear differential equations. We obtain some results which improve and extend the results of Chen-Shon [2] and Gundersen-Steinbart [5].
Keywords
periodic differential equation;subnormal solution;e-type order;
Language
English
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