Boundary Value Problems
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 23875, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/BVP/2006/23875
Uniqueness of solutions for fourth-order nonlocal boundary value problems
Department of Mathematics, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798-7328, USA
Received 19 January 2006; Accepted 22 January 2006
Copyright © 2006 Johnny Henderson and Ding Ma. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Uniqueness implies uniqueness relationships are examined among
solutions of the fourth-order ordinary differential
equation, y(4)=f(x,y,y′,y″,y‴), satisfying 5-point, 4-point, and 3-point nonlocal boundary conditions.