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Positive and maximal positive solutions of singular mixed boundary value problem

  • Ravi Agarwal EMAIL logo , Donal O’Regan and Svatoslav Staněk
From the journal Open Mathematics

Abstract

The paper is concerned with existence results for positive solutions and maximal positive solutions of singular mixed boundary value problems. Nonlinearities h(t;x;y) in differential equations admit a time singularity at t=0 and/or at t=T and a strong singularity at x=0.

MSC: 34B16; 34B18

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Published Online: 2009-10-31
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