Existnence and nonexistence of positive solutions of fourth order nonlinear boundary value problems

Applicable Analysis

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 201-214

  Graef, John R ^a   Yang, Bo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

34B15; Existence of psitive solutions; Fourth order equations; Nonexistence of positive solutions; Nonlinear boundary value problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002715198     PISSN: 00036811     EISSN: 1563504X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036810008840810     Document Type: Article

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