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A sufficient condition for the linear dependence of functions formulated only in terms of the Wronskian determinant is suggested, which is rather close to a necessary one.
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Translated from Sovremennaya Matematika i Ee Prilozheniya (Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications), Vol. 64, Equations of Mathematical Physics, 2009.
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Sergeev, I.N. Study of the linear dependence of scalar-valued functions using the Wronskian determinant. J Math Sci 164, 945–947 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-010-9775-6
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