Positive solutions for the beam equation under certain boundary conditions

Electronic Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Yang, B ^a  

^a KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone; Fixed point theorem; Nonlinear boundary value problem; Positive solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 23244454587     PISSN: 10726691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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