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Keywords:
Asymptotic stability; additive groups; parameter dependence
Summary:
The asymptotic behaviour of a Sturm-Liouville differential equation with coefficient $\lambda ^2q(s),\ s\in [s_0,\infty )$ is investigated, where $\lambda \in \mathbb R$ and $q(s)$ is a nondecreasing step function tending to $\infty$ as $s\rightarrow \infty$. Let $S$ denote the set of those $\lambda$’s for which the corresponding differential equation has a solution not tending to 0. It is proved that $S$ is an additive group. Four examples are given with $S=\lbrace 0\rbrace$, $S= \mathbb Z$, $S=\mathbb D$ (i.e. the set of dyadic numbers), and $\mathbb Q\subset S\subsetneqq \mathbb R$.
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