Existence and Localization of Solution for Second Order Elliptic BVP in Presence of Lower and Upper Solutions without Any Order

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 420-452

  De Coster, Colette ^a   Henrard, Marc ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lower and upper solutions; elliptic equations; degree; existence and localization; multiplicity; p Laplacian

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000908135     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jdeq.1998.3423     Document Type: Article

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