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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 468980, 16 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/468980
Research Article
Multiple Solutions for a Class of Fractional Boundary Value Problems
Department of Mathematics, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Received 6 March 2012; Accepted 19 September 2012
Academic Editor: Yong H. Wu
Copyright © 2012 Ge Bin. 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.
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