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On the Method of Upper and Lower Solutions for First Order BVPs

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Nonlinear Analysis and its Applications to Differential Equations

Part of the book series: Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications ((PNLDE,volume 43))

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The theory of differential equations with discontinuous nonlinearities has become more and more rich due to a still growing number of papers and books on the subject such as [2 3 4 8 9 10].

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  1. Departamento de Análise Matemática Facultade de Matemáticas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Alberto Cabada & Rodrigo L. Pouso

  2. Departamento de Matemática Aplicada E.T.S.I., Telecomunicación Universidade de Vigo, Spain

    Eduardo Liz

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  1. CMAF, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, 1649-003, Portugal

    M. R. Grossinho , M. Ramos , C. Rebelo  & L. Sanchez , ,  & 

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Cabada, A., Liz, E., Pouso, R.L. (2001). On the Method of Upper and Lower Solutions for First Order BVPs. In: Grossinho, M.R., Ramos, M., Rebelo, C., Sanchez, L. (eds) Nonlinear Analysis and its Applications to Differential Equations. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 43. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0191-5_12

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