Existence and nonexistence of solutions of second-order nonlinear boundary value problems

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2635-2651

  Kong, Qingkai ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eigenvalues of Sturm Liouville problems; Existence and nonexistence; Multiple solutions; Nonlinear boundary value problems

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LINEAR PROBLEMS; NONLINEAR BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; STURM LIOUVILLE PROBLEMS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 33847410086     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2006.03.045     Document Type: Article

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