Positive Solutions for a Boundary Value Problem with a Derivative Argument

Bo Sun

School of Statistics and Mathematics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081, China.

DOI: 10.4236/jamp.2013.14014                

Abstract

In this paper, several existence results of multiple positive solutions are obtained for a boundary value problem with p-Laplacian, by applying a fixed point theorem in cones. The interesting point is that the nonlinear term f is involved with the first-order derivative explicitly.

Keywords

Positive Solutions; Fixed Point Theorem; Cone; Boundary Value Problem; P-Laplacian

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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