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          Volume 5, Issue 1, Article 13 | 
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             The Method of Lower and Upper Solutions for Some Fourth-Order Equations
 
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          Authors:  | 
          Zhanbing Bai, Weigao Ge, Yifu Wang,  | 
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          Maximum principle; Lower and upper solutions; Fourth-order equation. | 
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          Date Received: 
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          17/09/03 | 
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          Date Accepted: 
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          23/01/04 | 
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             34B15, 34B10 
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          Editors:  | 
          A. M. Fink,   | 
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          Abstract: | 
           
              In this paper, by combining a new maximum principle of fourth-order equations with the theory of eigenline problems, we develop a monotone method in the presence of lower and upper solutions for some fourth-order ordinary differential equation boundary value problem. Our results indicate there is a relation between the existence of solutions of nonlinear fourth-order equation and the first eigenline of linear fourth-order equation.
             
          
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