“…The case where a = 0, that is, the case where (1)- (2) is an initial value problem, has been studied extensively (see for example [3,5,7,8,12,13,23] and the references therein). Here we are only concerned with the case where a = 0, that is, the case where (1)- (2) is a terminal (or boundary) value problem, and we will seek solutions of this problem over a finite interval [0, T ] where 0 < a < T .…”