ODELC3
From Exampleproblems
For the first-order system
, show that the right-hand side satisfies a Lipschitz condition in the domain
for
, where
and
are arbitrary but finite numbers. Deduce that the IVP
and
has a unique solution for
and obtain an estimate for
. By allowing
and
to be as large as possible, attempt to improve your estimate of
.
The Lipschitz constant is
.
If
then
The magnitude of
gives an upper bound:
Let
Pick
so that
.
Improve the estimate for
by allowing
and
to be as large as possible.
Maximize
.
The derivative is
.
Just set the numerator equal to 0.
Now let
so that
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