Positive solutions of higher-order boundary-value problems

Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 445-464

  Kong, Lingju ^a   Kong, Qingkai ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Existence; Lower and upper solutions; Non existence; Positive solutions; Schauder fixed point theorem

Indexed keywords

EID: 21244431644     PISSN: 00130915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0013091504000860     Document Type: Conference Paper

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