## Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics

### Disconjugacy and Transformations for Symplectic Systems

#### Article information

Source
Rocky Mountain J. Math. Volume 27, Number 3 (1997), 707-743.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 5 June 2007

http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1181071889

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1216/rmjm/1181071889

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR1490271

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0894.39005

#### Citation

Bohner, Martin; Došlý, Ondřej. Disconjugacy and Transformations for Symplectic Systems. Rocky Mountain J. Math. 27 (1997), no. 3, 707--743. doi:10.1216/rmjm/1181071889. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1181071889.

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