Positive solutions of singular sublinear fourth-order boundary value problems

Applicable Analysis

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1199-1220

  Ma, Ruyun ^a   Tisdell, Christopher C ^b  

^a NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

34B18; Existence; Green's function; Lower and upper solutions; Mathematics Subject Classifications: 34B15; Schauder fixed point theorem; Singular boundary value problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645152851     PISSN: 00036811     EISSN: 1563504X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036810500047634     Document Type: Article

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