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Kragujevac J. Math. 23 (2001) 53-58.

AN ALGEBRAIC CONDITION FOR QUALITATIVE STABILITY OF FIRST ORDER LINEAR AUTONOMOUS ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL SYSTEMS

Dele Oluwade

Department of Mathematics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
[Present address: Department of Computer Science, University of Ibaan, Ibadan, Nigeria ]

(Received September 8, 1999)

Abstract. A necessary condition for qualitative stability of the solutions of first order linear autonomous ordinary differential systems is given.