Positive solutions for a system of nonpositive difference equations

Aequationes Mathematicae

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 249-261

  Henderson, Johnny ^a   Wong, Patricia J Y ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Boundary value problems; Positive solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250834050     PISSN: 00019054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00000150     Document Type: Article

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