Three-point boundary value problems for second-order discrete equations

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 6-9, 2003, Pages 1429-1435

  Agarwal, R P ^a   Thompson, H B ^b   Tisdell, C C ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brouwer degree; Difference equations; Second order ordinary differential equations; Three point boundary value problem

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

BROUWER DEGREE; SECOND-ORDER DISCRETE EQUATIONS; SECOND-ORDER ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; THREE-POINT BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 0037732714     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0898-1221(03)00098-1     Document Type: Article

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