On the solvability of some discontinuous third order nonlinear differential equations with two point boundary conditions

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 174-190

  Cabada, Alberto ^a   do Rosário Grossinho, Maria ^b   Minhós, Feliz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Lower and upper solutions; Third order functional problems; Laplacian problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141738761     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-247X(03)00388-3     Document Type: Article

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