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THE DISTRIBUTION OF NONPRINCIPAL EIGENVALUES OF SINGULAR SECOND-ORDER LINEAR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS JUAN PABLO PINASCO Received 21 February 2005; Accepted 27 July 2006 We obtain the asymptotic distribution of the nonprincipal eigenvalues associated with the singular problem x + λq (t)x = 0 on an infinite interval [a,+∞). Similar to the regular eigenvalue problem on compact intervals, we can prove a Weyl-type expansion of the eigenvalue counting function, and we derive the asymptotic behavior of the eigenvalues. Copyright © 2006 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction In this work we study the second-order linear ordinary differential equation x + λq (t)x = 0, t ≥ a, (1.1) with the boundary conditions x (a,λ) = 0, lim x (t,λ) − t = 0, lim t x (t,λ) − 1 = 0, (1.2) t→∞ t→∞ where λ is a real parameter and q(t) is a positive continuous function on [a, ∞) satisfying ∞ 2 t q(t)dt ∞. (1.3) a A nonoscillatory solution x0 (t,λ) of (1.1) satisfying the boundary conditions (1.2) is called a nonprincipal eigenfunction if ∞ dt 2 ∞, (1.4) a x (t,λ) 1 and the corresponding value of λ is called a nonprincipal eigenvalue. Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences Volume 2006, Article ID 29895, Pages 1–7 DOI 10.1155/IJMMS/2006/29895 2 Distribution of eigenvalues Concerning th