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Existence of Symmetric Positive Solutions for an -Point Boundary Value Problem

Yongping Sun* and Xiaoping Zhang

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Department of Electron and Information, Zhejiang University of Media and Communications, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, China

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Boundary Value Problems 2007, 2007:079090 doi:10.1155/2007/79090


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Received:23 June 2006
Revisions received:17 December 2006
Accepted:11 March 2007
Published:16 May 2007

© 2007 Sun and Zhang

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We study the second-order -point boundary value problem , , , where , for with . is continuous, symmetric on the interval , and maybe singular at and , is continuous, and is symmetric on the interval for all and satisfies some appropriate growth conditions. By using Krasnoselskii's fixed point theorem in a cone, we get some existence results of symmetric positive solutions.

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