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For the system y′=b(x) z, z′=−a (x)y, wherea (x), b(x)) ∈ c [x0+∞), b(x)⩾ 0 we obtain for x≥x0a necessary and sufficient condition for nonoscillatory behavior. From this condition we derive new criteria for the nonoscillatory behavior of the system considered.
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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 259–265, August, 1974.
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Kamenev, I.V. A necessary and sufficient condition for nonoscillatory behavior of the solutions of a system of two linear equations of the first order. Mathematical Notes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 16, 742–746 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01105581
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