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In this paper, we show that the monotone iterative technique produces two monotone sequences that converge uniformly to extremal solutions for the periodic delay ϕ-Laplace equation. Moreover, we obtain optimal existence conditions with upper and lower solutions in the reverse order.
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Zuo, W., Jiang, D., O’Regan, D. et al. Optimal Existence Conditions for the Periodic Delay ϕ-Laplace Equation with upper and lower Solutions in the Reverse order. Results. Math. 44, 375–385 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03322992
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