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Existence of positive solution for second-order impulsive boundary value problems on infinity intervals

Jianli Li1* and Jianhua Shen1,2

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Mathematics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, China

2 Department of Mathematics, College of Huaihua, Huaihua, Hunan 418008, China

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Boundary Value Problems 2006, 2006:14594 doi:10.1155/BVP/2006/14594


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Received:8 January 2006
Revisions received:2 September 2006
Accepted:4 September 2006
Published:27 November 2006

© 2006 Li and Shen

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We deal with the existence of positive solutions to impulsive second-order differential equations subject to some boundary conditions on the semi-infinity interval.

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