EIGENVALUES AND POSITIVE SOLUTIONS FOR A THIRD-ORDER THREE-POINT BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEM

Yeping Xu (P. R. China)

Received December 4, 2008

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Keywords and phrases: positive solution, third-order three-point BVP, Schauder fixed point theorem, eigenvalue.