KORALP, EROL
M.S., Mathematics
Supervisor : Billur Kaymakcalan
Co-supervisor :
December 1999, 61 pages
There are many well-known analogies in the concepts of difference
calculus and differential calculus. The theory of measure chains was first
introduced by Stefan
Hilger in his PhD thesis [27] in 1988 in order to unify continuous
and discrete analysis. The general idea is to prove a result for a dynamic
equation where the domain
of the unknown function is a so-called time scale, which may be an
arbitrary closed subset of the reals. In view of the calculus and linear
theory initiated by Aulbach
and Hilger [10, 11, 12, 28], in this thesis with the aim of providing
a unified general framework, we have obtained in the time scale set-up
some basic Opial Type
inequalities which have many important applications both in the continuous
and discrete cases in many areas of applicable analysis. Finally, having
the above
developed tools at our disposal, we give some results concerning upper
bound estimates and uniqueness for the solutions of I.V.P.'s on time scale,
which unify and
generalize many previously obtained results
Keywords : Opial Inequalities, Time Scales, Upper Bounds and Uniqueness of Solutions of I.V.P.'s