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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 963105, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/963105
Research Article
Existence of Three Solutions for a Nonlinear Fractional Boundary Value Problem via a Critical Points Theorem
Department of Mathematics, Huaiyin Normal University, Jiangsu, Huaian 223300, China
Received 13 May 2012; Revised 8 July 2012; Accepted 9 July 2012
Academic Editor: Bashir Ahmad
Copyright © 2012 Chuanzhi Bai. 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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