Higher monotonicity properties of certain Sturm-Liouville functions. V

Abstract

SynopsisThe principal concern here is with conditions on f or on special solutions of the equationwhich ensure that the higher differences of the zeros and related quantities of solutions of (1) are regular in sign. In particular, by choosing f(x)= 2v−2x1/v−2, it is shown that if ⅓ ≦|v|<½, thenwhere cvk denotes the kth positive zero of a Bessel function of order v and Δµk = Δk+1 − µk. Lorch and Szego [15] conjectured that (2) should hold for the larger range | v | < ½ but the methods used here do not apply to the range | v <| ⅓.