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Existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for a higher-order three-point boundary value problem. (English) Zbl 07022524
Summary: This paper is concerned with the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for a nonlinear higher-order three-point boundary value problem. The existence results are obtained by applying a fixed point theorem of cone expansion and compression of functional type due to Avery, Henderson, and O’Regan.

##### MSC:
 34-XX Ordinary differential equations
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