Positive solutions of a boundary-value problem for a differential equation with damping and actively bounded delayed forcing term

Electronic Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-12

  Karakostas, George L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Boundary value problems; Delay differential equations; Krasnoselskii fixed point theorem; Positive solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745979509     PISSN: 10726691     EISSN: 10726691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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