Positive solutions for a semipositone fractional boundary value problem with a forcing term

Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-24

  Graef, John R ^a   Kong, Lingju ^a   Yang, Bo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

^b KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone; Fractional boundary value problems; Positive solutions; Semipositone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860461303     PISSN: 13110454     EISSN: 13142444     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s13540-012-0002-7     Document Type: Article

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