Existence and multiplicity of positive solutions to nonlinear first-order PBVPs on time scales

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 861-871

  Sun, Jian Ping ^a,b   Li, Wan Tong ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Existence and multiplicity; Fixed point; PBVP; Positive solution; Time scale

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; THEOREM PROVING; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

FIXED POINTS; MULTIPLICITY CRITERIA; POSITIVE SOLUTION;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 34547220442     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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