Existence of solutions for 2nth order nonlinear generalized sturm-liouville boundary value problems

Mathematical Inequalities and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 247-255

  Ehme, Jeffrey ^a   Eloe, Paul W ^b   Henderson, Johnny ^c  

^a SPELMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lower solution; Nonlinear boundary value problem; Upper solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008835573     PISSN: 13314343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7153/mia-04-24     Document Type: Article

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