Does Lipschitz with Respect to x Imply Uniqueness for the Differential Equation y′ = f(x, y)?

Author: Cid José Ángel   Pouso Rodrigo López  

Publisher: Mathematical Association of America

ISSN: 1930-0972

Source: American Mathematical Monthly, Vol.116, Iss.1, 2009-01, pp. : 61-66

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Abstract

Most uniqueness tests for differential equations need assumptions about how the nonlinear part depends on the unknown. A paradigm for this is the classical Lipschitz Theorem. We show that the theorem on differentiation of inverse functions yields, in a significant situation, an elementary technique for turning such uniqueness results into alternative versions of them with assumptions transferred from the dependent to the independent variable.