A class of 2 n th-order singular boundary value problems

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1225-1245

  Wei, Zhongli ^a   Pang, Changci ^b  

^a SHANDONG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2 n th order; A partial ordering; Lower and upper solution; Maximum principle; Positive solution; Singular boundary value problem

Indexed keywords

LINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMBER THEORY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

LEMMAS; LOWER AND UPPER SOLUTION; PARTIAL ORDERING; POSITIVE SOLUTION; SINGULAR BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 33845896549     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2006.01.014     Document Type: Article

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