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Dedicated to Professor Rolf Reissig on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.
These results were announced at the meeting on ordinary differential equations held at Oberwolfach, March, 1987.
Research partially supported by a grant from the Research Grants Committee of The University of Alabama.
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Ward, J.R. Conley Index and Non-Autonomous Ordinary Differential Equations. Results. Math. 14, 191–209 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03323225
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