“…Namely, we have in this case that holds, where ℓ and are defined by , in which the quantities and denote the number of proper focal points in of the principal solutions and of (H λ ) and , respectively, and This can be seen from the oscillation theorem for linear Hamiltonian systems with jointly varying endpoints in [, Theorems 6.13 and 6.16]. Remark The result in Theorem 4.6 applies also to eigenvalue problems with periodic (or antiperiodic) boundary conditions. For example, following [, Remark 6.15] we get the periodic boundary conditions and in (E j ) and by taking …”