Eigenvalue theorems for discrete multipoint conjugate boundary value problems

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 227-240

  Wong, Patricia J Y ^a   Agarwal, Ravi P ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Eigenvalues; Multipoint boundary value problems; Positive solutions

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

MULTIPOINT BOUNDARY VALUE;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 0033906256     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(99)00258-7     Document Type: Article

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