Multiple solutions for 2mth-order Sturm-Liouville boundary value problems

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 231-237

  Chyan, Chuan Jen ^a   Henderson, J ^b  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

GROWTH CONDITIONS; MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS; POSITIVE SOLUTIONS;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 0034230643     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0898-1221(00)00156-5     Document Type: Article

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