Positive solutions of 2nth-order ordinary differential equations with multi-point boundary conditions

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 262-270

  Liang, Sihua ^a,b   Zhang, Jihui ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Changchun Normal College   (China)

Author keywords

Fixed point theorem; Lower and upper solution; Multi point boundary value problem; Positive solution

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

FIXED POINT THEOREM; MULTI-POINT BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; POSITIVE SOLUTION;

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 38949154832     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2007.07.079     Document Type: Article

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