Differential equations MOC

Boundary value problem

A boundary value problem (BVP) gives the value of a function to be determined or its derivatives at multiple different points, in contrast to an initial value problem which gives the value of a function and its derivatives at one point.

Unlike with IVPs, there is no general Existence and uniqueness theorem for IVPs for BVPs, and they may have no solutions, a unique solution, or infinite solutions on a case by case basis.1

A non-homogenous system has a unique solution if and only if the only solution of the related homogenous system is the trivial solution .

Boundary value eigenvalue problem


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Footnotes

  1. 2017. Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, p. 465