Positivity and lower and upper solutions for fourth order boundary value problems

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1599-1612

  Cabada, Alberto ^a   Angel Cid J ^b   Sanchez, Luís ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fourth order maximum principles; Multiple solutions; Upper and lower solutions

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

FOURTH ORDER MAXIMUM PRINCIPLES; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLES; MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS; UPPER AND LOWER SOLUTIONS;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 34247509328     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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