Upper and lower solutions method and a superlinear singular discrete boundary value problem

Dynamic Systems and Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 743-754

  Jiang, Daqing ^a   Pang, P Y H ^b   Agarwal, Ravi P ^c  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Singular discrete boundary value problem; Upper and lower solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249048439     PISSN: 10562176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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