Talk:Uniqueness of Continuously Differentiable Solution to Initial Value Problem

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I've probably got this wrong again and it's not the same thing at all. If this is the case, perhaps it's time I retired. --prime mover (talk) 15:12, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

My text (Miller - Ordinary Differential Equations) lists this as a corollary to Picard's Theorem. (It's not called Picard's theorem, the text breaks the theorem up into a few chapters, but you know. That fundamental existence theorem for ODE's.) The proof is "left to the reader" and I lack the focus/interest to piece it together and fill it in right now. The proof seems to depend equally on the MVT, Picard's Theorem, and some facts on convex sets, so I didn't feel like posting it as a corollary.
This proposition is a bit "nicer". You don't have to directly show Lipschitz continuity, and the interval of existence guaranteed by Picard's theorem can be restrictive. --Keith.U (talk) 16:44, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Okay so I think I need to retire, i'm shit at maths. --prime mover (talk) 19:39, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
If you're shit then I don't wanna think about where that puts me D: --Keith.U (talk) 22:05, 4 July 2016 (UTC)