Multiple Positive Solutions of Two-Point Boundary Value Problems for Systems of Nonlinear Third-Order Differential Equations

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Zhongmin Sun 1,* Suoquan Ren 1 Zhenlin Wu 1 Huabin Zhang 1

1. Weifang Education College, Qingzhou, Shandong Province, China

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2012.01.12

Received: 16 Nov. 2011 / Revised: 21 Dec. 2011 / Accepted: 26 Jan. 2012 / Published: 29 Feb. 2012

Index Terms

Boundary value problems, Positive solutions, Green's functions, cones

Abstract

In this paper, we study the two-point boundary value problems for systems of nonlinear third-order dierential equations .Under some conditions, we show the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions of the above problem by applying the fixed point theorems in cones.

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Zhongmin Sun,Suoquan Ren,Zhenlin Wu,Huabin Zhang,"Multiple Positive Solutions of Two-Point Boundary Value Problems for Systems of Nonlinear Third-Order Differential Equations", IJEM, vol.2, no.1, pp.78-87, 2012. DOI: 10.5815/ijem.2012.01.12 

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