Global structure of positive solutions for superlinear second order m-point boundary value problems

Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 279-290

  Ma, Ruyun ^a   An, Yulian ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bifurcation methods; Eigenvalues; Multi point boundary value problem; Multiplicity results; Positive solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956474367     PISSN: 12303429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12775/TMNA.2009.043     Document Type: Article

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