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In this paper, we investigate the positive solutions of a second-order system with impulse effects. By using critical point theory the existence result of positive solutions is obtained.
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The first and second authors are supported by grant 10671012 from National Natural Sciences Foundation of People’s Republic of China and grant 20050007011 from Foundation for Ph.D. Specialities of Educational Department of People’s Republic of China, Tianyuan Fund of Mathematics in China (10726038), the third author is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Y2007A27).
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Tian, Y., Ge, W. & Yang, D. Existence results for second-order system with impulse effects via variational methods. J. Appl. Math. Comput. 31, 255–265 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12190-008-0208-3
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