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An overview of the lower and upper solutions method with nonlinear boundary value conditions. (English) Zbl 1230.34001
This is a nice and well documented survey article on the use of lower and upper solutions in the study of second order differential equations of the type $u'' = f(t,u,u')$ and, more generally, of the types $(|u'|^{p-2}u')' = f(t,u,u'),\quad (r(t)u')' = f(t,u,u'), \quad (k(u)u')' = f(t,u,u')$ subject to two-point and to functional nonlinear boundary conditions.

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 34-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to ordinary differential equations 34B15 Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations 34A45 Theoretical approximation of solutions to ordinary differential equations
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