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Singular problems motivated from classical upper and lower solutions

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General existence criteria are presented for nonlinear singular boundary value problems. Our nonlinearity may be singular in both the dependent and independent variable.

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  1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fl, 32901-6975, U.S.A.

    R. P. Agarwal

  2. Department of Mathematics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    D. O'Regan

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Agarwal, R.P., O'Regan, D. Singular problems motivated from classical upper and lower solutions. Acta Mathematica Hungarica 100, 245–256 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025045626822

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