Necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of positive solutions of a coupled system for elastic beam equations

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 357, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-88

  Sun, Yan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cone; Decreasing operator; Existence; Positive solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349237737     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: 10960813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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