Positive solutions for third order semipositone boundary value problems.(English)Zbl 1173.34313

Summary: We obtain some sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions of a third order semipositone boundary value problem with a multi-point boundary condition. Applications of our results to some special problems are also discussed.

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 34B18 Positive solutions to nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations 34B15 Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations
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