Focal Boundary Value Problems for Differential and Difference Equations

the long version

This monograph presents an up-to-date account of the theory of right focal point boundary value problems for differential and difference equations. Topics include existence and uniqueness, Picard's method, quasilinearisation, necessary and sufficient conditions for right disfocality, right and eventual disfocalities, Green's functions, monotone convergence, continuous dependence and differentiation with respect to boundary values, infinite interval problems, best possible results, control theory methods, focal subfunctions, singular problems, and problems with impulse effects. Audience: This work will be of interest to mathematicians and graduate students in the disciplines of theoretical and applied mathematics.