A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of positive solutions to singular sublinear three-point boundary value problems

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 404-413

  Du, Xinsheng ^a   Zhao, Zengqin ^a  

^a QUFU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Lower and upper solution; Maximum principle; Positive solution; Second order singular three point boundary value problems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; THEOREM PROVING;

POSITIVE SOLUTION; SECOND-ORDER SINGULAR THREE-POINT BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 33947213396     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2006.07.120     Document Type: Article

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