Existence of multiple solutions for a second-order difference equation with a parameter

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 216, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1592-1598

  Gao, Liming ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary value problem; Critical points; Difference equation; Existence and multiple solutions

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL POINTS; EXISTENCE AND MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS; MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS; SECOND ORDERS;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; EQUATIONS OF STATE;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS;

EID: 77950860705     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2010.03.012     Document Type: Article

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