Positive solutions and nonlinear eigenvalue problems for functional differential equations

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 63-68

  Henderson, J ^a   Yin, W ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAGRANGE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary value problem; Eigenvalue; Functional differential equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002848603     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(98)00150-5     Document Type: Article

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