Mathematisches Institut II, Universität Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Abstract:
A well known comparison theorem on ordinary differential inequalities with quasimonotone right-hand side was carried over by Volkmann (1972) to (pre)ordered topological vector spaces. We prove that the quasimonotonicity of is a necessary condition here if is continuous. Then it is shown that quasimonotonicity can be verified by considering only a few positive continuous linear functionals in the definition (for instance in by taking coordinate functionals).