Positive solutions for (n - 1, 1) three-point boundary value problems with coefficient that changes sign

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 282, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 816-825

  Liu, Yuji ^a,b   Ge, Weigao ^b  

^a HUNAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cone; Higher order differential equation; Leray Schauder degree theory; Positive solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038116447     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-247X(03)00278-6     Document Type: Article

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