Existence of solutions for a higher order multi-point boundary value problem

Results in Mathematics

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 77-101

  Graef, John R ^a   Kong, Lingju ^a   Yang, Bo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

^b KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary value problems; Fixed point index; Lower and upper solutions; Solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349218012     PISSN: 14226383     EISSN: 14209012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00025-008-0302-8     Document Type: Article

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