Multiplicity results for some second-order four-point boundary-value problems

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 491-500

  Bai, Zhanbing ^a,b   Ge, Weigao ^a   Wang, Yifu ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary value problem; Fixed point theorem; Multiplicity; Positive solution

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEM; FIXED POINT THEOREM; MULTIPLICITY; POSITIVE SOLUTION;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 9644262688     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2004.08.039     Document Type: Article

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