Positive Solutions of Three-point Nonlinear Discrete Second Order Boundary Value Problem

Journal of Difference Equations and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-138

  Ma, Ruyun ^a   Raffoul, Youssef N ^b  

^a NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone theory; Nonlinear difference equation; Positive solutions; Second order boundary value problem; Three point boundary value problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742306107     PISSN: 10236198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1023619031000114323     Document Type: Article

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