Existence of positive solutions for higher order difference equations

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 67-74

  Agarwal, R P ^a   Wong, Fu Hsiang ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b National Taipei Teacher's College   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cone; Fixed point; Higher order discrete boundary value problems; Operator equation; Positive solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004386365     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(97)00085-2     Document Type: Article

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