Solutions of 2nth Lidstone boundary value problems and dependence on higher order derivatives

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 279, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 442-450

  Bai, Zhanbing ^a,b   Ge, Weigao ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

Lidstone boundary value problem; Lower and upper solutions; Maximum principle

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038182950     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-247X(03)00011-8     Document Type: Article

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