Existence of positive solutions for operator equations and applications to semipositone problems

Positivity

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 315-328

  Xian, X U ^a   O'Regan, Donal ^b  

^a JIANGSU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fixed point index; Positive solution; Semipositone problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646730700     PISSN: 13851292     EISSN: 15729281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11117-005-0030-1     Document Type: Article

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