High Order Boundary Value Problems: Existence, Localization and Multiplicity Results - Hardcover

Fialho, Joćo; Minhos, Feliz

 
9781631177071: High Order Boundary Value Problems: Existence, Localization and Multiplicity Results

Synopsis

The motto for all the results presented in this book is the lower and upper solution method. In short, this method can guarantee not only the existence of a solution for a given boundary value problem but also the location of the solution in a strip defined by the lower and the upper solutions. Therefore, the challenge of finding a solution for a boundary value problem is replaced by the search of two functions (well-ordered, in reversed order or non-ordered) satisfying adequate differential inequalities and boundary conditions. The freedom to choose such functions is at the same time its weakness: lower and upper solutions must be defined and exhibited.

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Review

"This very interesting book is devoted to the study of higher order boundary value problems. The main tool utilized throughout the volume is the method of upper and lower solutions.
Of particular interest is the fact that in many cases the authors give an explicit construction of the upper and lower solution. Another nice feature of the book is that the methodology is applied also to real world phenomena.
Overall the book is fairly easy to read and would be helpful for graduate students and young researchers willing to learn more on this method." - Dr. Gennaro Infante, University of Catania

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