A generalized upper and lower solution method for singular initial value problems

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 47, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 739-750

  Agarwal, R P ^a   O'Regan, D ^b   Lakshmikantham, V ^a   Leela, S ^c  

^a Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Existence; Initial value problems; Singular; Upper and lower solutions

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

EXISTENCE OF SOLUTIONS; SINGULAR INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; UPPER AND LOWER SOLUTIONS;

INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 1842854682     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0898-1221(04)90061-2     Document Type: Article

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