Fully nonlinear fourth-order equations with functional boundary conditions

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 340, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 239-251

  Cabada, A ^a   Minhos F M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Beam equation; Fixed point theory; Fourth order functional problems; Human spine continuous model; Lower and upper solutions; Nagumo type condition

Indexed keywords

EID: 37449030173     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: 10960813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2007.08.026     Document Type: Article

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