Criteria for multiple solutions of difference and partial difference equations subject to multipoint conjugate conditions

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 629-661

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

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; THEOREM PROVING;

MULTIPOINT CONJUGATE CONDITIONS; POSITIVE SOLUTIONS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0034172422     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(00)85039-7     Document Type: Article

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