Existence of positive solutions for singular higher-order differential equations

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3948-3961

  Liu, Lishan ^a,b   Zhang, Xinguang ^a   Wu, Yonghong ^b  

^a QUFU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fixed point theorem; Positive cone; Positive solution; Singular higher order eigenvalue problem

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; THEOREM PROVING;

FIXED POINT THEOREM; POSITIVE CONE; POSITIVE SOLUTION; SINGULAR HIGHER ORDER EIGENVALUE PROBLEM;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 42949163877     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2007.04.032     Document Type: Article

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