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JOURNALS // Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seriya 1. Matematika. Mekhanika // Archive

Vestnik Moskov. Univ. Ser. 1. Mat. Mekh., 2011 Number 6, Pages 21–26 (Mi vmumm731)

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Mathematics

Oscillation and wandering of solutions to a second order differential equation

I. N. Sergeev

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics

Abstract: The Lyapunov's oscillation and wandering characteristics of solutions to a second order linear equation are defined, namely, the mean frequency of a solution, of its derivative or their various linear combinations, the mean angular velocity of the vector composed of a solution and its derivative, also wandering indices derived from that velocity. Nearly all of the values introduced for any equation are proved to be the same: for the autonomic equation – just all (moreover they coincide with the modules of the imaginary parts of the roots of the characteristic polynomial), but even for the periodic one – generally speaking, not all.

Key words: differential equation, zeros of solutions, oscillation and wandering, characteristic exponents.

UDC: 517.926

Received: 08.12.2010



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