DISTRIBUTION OF ROOTS OF CUBIC EQUATIONS

  • Huang, Deqing (DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, SICHUAN UNIVERSITY) ;
  • Tang, Yilei (DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRIC AND COMPUTER ENGINEERIG, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE) ;
  • Zhang, Weinian (DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, SHANGHAI JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY)
  • Received : 2010.01.27
  • Accepted : 2010.05.08
  • Published : 2010.05.31

Abstract

In this note the distribution of roots of cubic equations in contrast to 0 is given, which is useful to discuss eigenvalues for qualitative properties of differential equations.

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