This issue appeared as volume 8, numbers 3-4, (September+December) 1999.
Discussed topics include continuous/discrete treatment of linear/general Hamiltonian systems, Sturm-Liouville equations, Riccati equations, self-adjoint eigenvalue problems, and related variational analysis.
Contributors and titles of the contributions are as follows:
- Ravi Agarwal, Calvin Ahlbrandt, Martin Bohner, Allan Peterson:
Discrete linear Hamiltonian systems: A survey
- Douglas Anderson: Normalized prepared bases for symplectic matrix
systems
- Martin Bohner, Ondrej Dosly, Werner Kratz: Discrete Reid roundabout
theorems
- Shaozhu Chen, Fanwei Meng, Zhaowen Zheng: Oscillation of linear
Hamiltonian systems
- Sui Sun Cheng, Rigoberta Medina: Growth conditions for a discrete heat
equation with delayed control
- Steve Clark, Don Hinton: Discrete Liapunov inequalities
- John Davis, Paul Eloe, Johnny Henderson: Comparison of eigenvalues for
discrete Lidstone boundary value problems
- Yuri Domshlak: Riccati difference equations with almost periodic
coefficients in the critical state
- Ondrej Dosly, Roman Hilscher: Linear Hamiltonian difference systems:
Transformations, recessive solutions, generalized reciprocity
- Gerhard Freiling, Vlad Ionescu: Non-symmetric discrete-time difference and
algebraic Riccati equations: Some representation formulae and comments
- Aristide Halanay, Vladimir Rasvan: Stability criteria and boundary value
problems for linear periodic discrete-time Hamiltonian systems
- Betty Jean Harmsen: Using remainder polynomials to solve discrete
Sturm-Liouville problems
- Stefan Hilger: Special functions, Laplace and Fourier transform on
measure chains
- Roman Hilscher: Linear Hamiltonian systems on time scales:
Transformations
- Vlad Ionescu: Dichotomy and contractiveness for time-varying discrete
descritptor systems
- Qingkai Kong, Hongyon Wu, Anton Zettl: Inequalities among eigenvalues
of singular Sturm-Liouville problems
- I. Kumari, Suram Umamaheshwaram:
Conjugacy criteria for a linear second order
difference equation
- Ewa Magnucki-Blandzi, Jerzy Popenda: Continued fractions and systems
of two rational difference equations
- Chuan Tian, Bo Yang, Binggen Zhang: Oscillation for certain systems of
functional differential equations
- Tammy Voepel: Variable change for fourth order difference equations
- Vera Zeidan: Nonnegativity and positivity of a quadratic functional