Positive solutions of a nonlinear higher order boundary-value problem

Electronic Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 2007, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-10

  Graef, John R ^a   Henderson, Johnny ^b   Yang, Bo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Existence and nonexistence of positive solutions; Guo Krasnosel'skii fixed point theorem; Higher order boundary value problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947363844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10726691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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