Existence of a positive solution to a system of discrete fractional boundary value problems

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 217, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4740-4753

  Goodrich, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone; Coupled system of boundary value problems; Discrete fractional calculus; Eigenvalues; Positive solution

Indexed keywords

COUPLED SYSTEMS; EIGENVALUES; FRACTIONAL CALCULUS; FUNCTIONALS; NEW RESULTS; NON-LOCAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ORDER BOUNDARIES; POSITIVE SOLUTION; SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS;

CALCULATIONS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; RUBIDIUM;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 78650170131     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2010.11.029     Document Type: Article

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