Open Access Research Article

Solvability of Second-Order -Point Boundary Value Problems with Impulses

Jianli Li1* and Sanhui Liu1,2

Author Affiliations

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

2 Department of Mathematics, Zhuzhou Professional Technology College, Zhuzhou, Hunan 412000, China

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Boundary Value Problems 2007, 2007:097067 doi:10.1155/2007/97067


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Received:1 April 2007
Accepted:30 August 2007
Published:22 November 2007

© 2007 Li and Liu

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By Leray-Schauder continuation theorem and the nonlinear alternative of Leray-Schauder type, the existence of a solution for an -point boundary value problem with impulses is proved.

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