International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 1 (1978), Issue 1, Pages 31-40
doi:10.1155/S0161171278000046

Comparison theorems for ultrahyperbolic equations

C. C. Travis1 and E. C. Young2

1Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37916, Tennessee, USA
2Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306, Florida, USA

Received 2 July 1977

Copyright © 1978 C. C. Travis and E. C. Young. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Sturmian comparison theorems are obtained for solutions of a class of normal and singular ultrahyperbolic partial differential equations. In the singular case, solutions are considered which satisfy non-standard boundary conditions.