Open Access Research Article

Positive Solutions for Two-Point Semipositone Right Focal Eigenvalue Problem

Yuguo Lin and Minghe Pei*

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Department of Mathematics, Bei Hua University, JiLin City 132013, China

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Boundary Value Problems 2007, 2007:023108 doi:10.1155/2007/23108


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Received:28 March 2007
Revisions received:13 July 2007
Accepted:27 August 2007
Published:17 October 2007

© 2007 Lin and Pei

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Krasnoselskii's fixed-point theorem in a cone is used to discuss the existence of positive solutions to semipositone right focal eigenvalue problems , , , , , where , is fixed, is continuous with for some positive constant .

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