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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 951251, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/951251
Research Article
Necessary and Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Solutions to a Discrete Second-Order Boundary Value Problem
Department of Mathematics, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
Received 20 December 2011; Accepted 22 February 2012
Academic Editor: Yuriy Rogovchenko
Copyright © 2012 Chenghua Gao. 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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