{"@context":["https://w3id.org/fdo/context/v1",{"schema":"https://schema.org/","prov":"http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#","fdo":"https://w3id.org/fdo/vocabulary/"}],"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q810703","@type":"DigitalObject","kernel":{"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q810703","digitalObjectType":"https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle","primaryIdentifier":"mardi:Q810703","kernelVersion":"v1","immutable":true,"modified":"2026-01-07T14:54:03Z"},"profile":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ScholarlyArticle","@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q810703","name":"The homogenization of an ordinary differential equation with a chessboard structure","headline":"The homogenization of an ordinary differential equation with a chessboard structure","description":"scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4214394","url":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q810703","datePublished":"1991-00-00","author":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q810702"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q464283"}],"publisher":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q162242"}],"comment":"Let f(x,y) denote the function taking value \\(\\alpha\\) (resp. \\(\\beta\\)) on black (resp. white) squares of the infinite chessboard and let y denote any solution of the differential equation \\(y'=f(x,y)\\). It is known from a theorem of L. Piccinini that \\(\\gamma (\\alpha,\\beta)=\\lim_{x\\to \\infty}y(x)/x\\) exists and is independent of y. In this note, the authors show that the function \\(\\gamma\\) is continuous and increasing but very intricated, despite of the linearity of f in \\(\\alpha\\) and \\(\\beta\\). The more remarkable result is the description of the contour line \\(\\gamma (\\alpha,\\beta)=c\\) that highly depends on arithmetic properties of c. Proofs are not given but ``will appear in a forthcoming paper''."},"provenance":{"prov:generatedAtTime":"2026-01-07T14:54:03Z","prov:wasAttributedTo":"MaRDI Knowledge Graph"}}