Uniqueness implies existence and uniqueness criterion for nonlocal boundary value problems for third order differential equations

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 134, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3363-3372

  Clark, Stephen ^a,b   Henderson, Johnny ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary value problem; Existence; Nonlocal; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750502215     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08368-7     Document Type: Article

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