Infinitely many solutions for a class of fractional boundary value problem

Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1083-1097

  Chen, Jing ^a,b   Tang, X H ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary value problem; Critical point theory; Fractional differential equations; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886781358     PISSN: 01266705     EISSN: 21804206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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