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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 572172, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/572172
Research Article

Positive Solutions for Sturm-Liouville Boundary Value Problems in a Banach Space

Hua Su,1 Lishan Liu,2 and Yonghong Wu3

1School of Mathematics and Quantitative Economics, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan 250014, China
2School of Mathematical Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
3Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA 6845, Australia

Received 20 February 2012; Accepted 13 June 2012

Academic Editor: Shaoyong Lai

Copyright © 2012 Hua Su et al. 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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