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In this paper, we use the mixed monotone operator method to study the following nonlinear boundary value problem
An example is provided to illustrate the results.
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All authors were partially supported by the Project ULPGC 2014–04 and the third author was supported by Project MTM 2016–79436–P.
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Cabrera, I.J., Rocha, J. & Sadarangani, K.B. Application of the mixed monotone operator to a nonlinear third-order boundary value problem. RACSAM 112, 1317–1325 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13398-017-0423-6
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