Positive solutions of a nonlinear nth order boundary value problem with nonlocal conditions

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 521-527

  Eloe, Paul W ^a   Ahmad, Bashir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Fixed point theorem; Green's function; Maximum principle; Nonlocal boundary value problems; Positive solutions

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; THEOREM PROVING;

DIFFERENTIAL INEQUALITIES; FIXED POINT THEOREM; NONLOCAL BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; POSITIVE SOLUTIONS;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 14844328106     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aml.2004.05.009     Document Type: Article

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