Positive solutions for a four-point boundary value problem with the p-Laplacian

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3493-3503

  Lian, Hairong ^a,b   Ge, Weigao ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cone; Fixed point theorem; Multi point boundary value problem; Positive solution

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LAPLACE EQUATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

FIXED POINT THEOREMS; MULTI POINT BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; POSITIVE SOLUTIONS;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 41749093223     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2007.03.042     Document Type: Article

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