Extremal solutions and green's functions of higher order periodic boundary value problems in time scales

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 290, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-54

  Cabada, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Green functions; Lower and upper solutions; Maximum principles; Monotone iterative technique; Time scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 1242299763     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2003.08.018     Document Type: Article

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