The explicit solution of homogeneous linear oridinary differential equations with constant coefficients

Abstract

In this paper by using tensor analysis we give the explicit expressions of the solution of the initial-value problem of homogeneous linear differential equations with constant coefficients and the n th-order homogeneous linear differential equation with constant coefficients. In fact, we give the general formula for calculating the elements of the matrix exp [At]. We also give the results when the characteristic equation has the repeated roots. The present method is simpler and better than, the other methods.