Solvability of Two-Point Boundary Value Problems for Fourth-Order Nonlinear Differential Equations at Resonance

Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 977-989

  Liu, Yuji ^a,b   Ge, Weigao ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Hunan College of Science and Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Fourth order differential equation; Resonance; Solvability of boundary value problem; Two point boundary value problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342326410     PISSN: 02322064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4171/ZAA/1183     Document Type: Article

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