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In this paper, we investigate the existence of positive solutions for a classes of m-point boundary value problems with p-Laplacian. By applying a monotone iterative technique, some sufficient conditions for the existence of twin positive solutions are established.
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The first and second authors were supported financially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11071141, 10771117) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China (Y2007A23).
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Zhang, X., Liu, L. Positive solutions for m-point boundary-value problems with one-dimensional p-Laplacian. J. Appl. Math. Comput. 37, 523–531 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12190-010-0447-y
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Keywords
- Multi-point boundary value problems
- Monotone iterative technique
- p-Laplacian operator
- Iterative positive solutions