Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of symmetric positive solutions of multi-point boundary value problems

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1529-1552

  Graef, John R ^a   Kong, Lingju ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary value problems; Cone; Existence; Fixed point theorem; Multi point boundary condition; Symmetric positive solutions

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

FIXED POINT THEOREM; SYMMETRIC POSITIVE SOLUTIONS;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 38349099623     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2006.12.037     Document Type: Article

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