Positone

Quick meaning: Positone is an adjective meaning (mathematics) of a particular kind of eigenvalue problem involving a nonlinear function on the reals that is continuous, positive, and monotone.

Meaning

(mathematics) of a particular kind of eigenvalue problem involving a nonlinear function on the reals that is continuous, positive, and monotone.

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1. for scriptstyle λ>0 under the assumption that scriptstyle f: ℝ→ ℝ is continuous, positive, monotone. For this reason such problems were named positone... If the nonlinearity scriptstyle f: ℝ→ ℝ is continuous, monotone and scriptstyle f(0)<0,...then the eigenvalue problem is called semipositone.

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Related dictionary entries include semipositone, monotone, isotone, semipositive, nonvanishing, pseudomonotone.

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