Green functions and positive solutions for boundary value problems of third-order difference equations

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 567-578

  Yang, Chunming ^a   Weng, Peixuan ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary value problem; Green function; Positive solutions; Third order difference equation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; THEOREM PROVING;

POSITIVE SOLUTIONS; THIRD-ORDER DIFFERENCE EQUATION;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS;

EID: 34250819971     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2007.01.032     Document Type: Article

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