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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society Volume 2008, Article ID 257680, 19 pages doi:10.1155/2008/257680 Research Article Twin Positive Solutions of a Nonlinear m-Point Boundary Value Problem for Third-Order p-Laplacian Dynamic Equations on Time Scales Wei Han1 and Guang Zhang2 1 Department of Mathematics, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China 2 Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin 300134, China Correspondence should be addressed to Wei Han, qd hanweiwei1@126.com Received 20 April 2008; Accepted 20 June 2008 Recommended by Binggen Zhang Several existence theorems of twin positive solutions are established for a nonlinear m-point boundary value problem of third-order p-Laplacian dynamic equations on time scales by using a fixed point theorem. We present two theorems and four corollaries which generalize the results of related literature. As an application, an example to demonstrate our results is given. The obtained conditions are different from some known results. Copyright q 2008 W. Han and G. Zhang. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction A time scale T is a nonempty closed subset of R. We make the blanket assumption that 0 and T are points in T. By an interval 0, T , we always mean the intersection of the real interval 0, T with the given time scale, that is, 0, T ∩ T. In this paper, we will be concerned with the existence of positive solutions of the p- Laplacian dynamic equations on time scales: Δ∇ ∇