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A Sturm-Liouville function is simply a non-trivial solution of the Sturm-Liouville differential equation(1.1)considered, together with everything else in this study, in the real domain. The associated quantities whose higher monotonicity properties are determined here are defined, for fixed λ > –1, to be(1.2)where y(x) is an arbitrary (non-trivial) solution of (1.1) and x1, x2, … is any finite or infinite sequence of consecutive zeros of any non-trivial solution z(x) of (1.1) which may or may not be linearly independent of y(x). The condition λ > –1 is required to assure convergence of the integral defining Mk, and the function W(x) is taken subject to the same restriction.

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The primary concern addressed here is the variation with respect to the order v > 0 of the zeros jʺvk of fixed rank of the second derivative of the Bessel function Jv(x) of the first kind. It is shown that jʺv1 increases 0 < v < ∞ (Theorem 4.1) and that jʺvk increases in 0 < v ≤ 3838 for fixed k = 2, 3,… (Theorem 10.1).

We consider the positive zeros j″vk, k = 1, 2,…, of the second derivative of the Bessel function Jν(x). We are interested first in how many zeros there are on the interval (0,jν1), where jν1 is the smallest positive zero of Jν(x). We show that there exists a number ƛ = —0.19937078… such that and . Moreover, j″v1 decreases to 0 and j″ν2 increases to j″01 as ν increases from ƛ to 0. Further, j″vk increases in —1 < ν< ∞, for k = 3,4,… Monotonicity properties are established also for ordinates, and the slopes at the ordinates, of the points of inflection when — 1 < ν < 0.