Sufficient conditions for the existence of nonnegative solutions of a nonlocal boundary value problem

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 401-407

  Karakostas, G L ^a   Tsamatos, P Ch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Krasnoselskii's fixed point theorem; Nonlocal boundary value problems; Nonnegative solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244433098     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(01)00149-5     Document Type: Article

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