Existence of solutions for fourth order boundary value problems on a time scale

Journal of Difference Equations and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-28

  Henderson, Johnny ^a   Yin, William ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAGRANGE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary value problem; Monotone sequence; Nonlinear; Time scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037243427     PISSN: 10236198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1023619031000060954     Document Type: Article

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