Comparison of green's functions for a family of multipoint boundary value problems

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 296-307

  Eloe, Paul W ^a   Zhang, Lingqin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

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EID: 0034196924     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmaa.2000.6811     Document Type: Article

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