Positive solutions for third order semipositone boundary value problems

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1154-1160

  Graef, John R ^a   Kong, Lingju ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi point boundary condition; Positive solutions; Semipositone boundary value problems

Indexed keywords

MULTI-POINT BOUNDARY CONDITION; POSITIVE SOLUTIONS; SEMIPOSITONE BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; THIRD ORDERS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 67349158007     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aml.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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