Regular Variation and Differential Equations

Download or read book Regular Variation and Differential Equations written by Vojislav Maric and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-06 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book offering an application of regular variation to the qualitative theory of differential equations. The notion of regular variation, introduced by Karamata (1930), extended by several scientists, most significantly de Haan (1970), is a powerful tool in studying asymptotics in various branches of analysis and in probability theory. Here, some asymptotic properties (including non-oscillation) of solutions of second order linear and of some non-linear equations are proved by means of a new method that the well-developed theory of regular variation has yielded. A good graduate course both in real analysis and in differential equations suffices for understanding the book.