Chapter 2 The lower and upper solutions method for boundary value problems

Handbook of Differential Equations: Ordinary Differential Equations

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 69-160

  De Coster, C ^a   Habets, P ^b  

^a Université du Lilloral   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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EID: 70350221977     PISSN: 18745725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1874-5725(00)80004-8     Document Type: Chapter

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