Positive solutions for second-order m-point boundary value problems

  • Authors:
  • Yanping Guo;Wenrui Shan;Weigao Ge

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, People's Republic of China and College of Sciences, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang, He ...;Department of Applied Mathematics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, People's Republic of China;Department of Applied Mathematics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, People's Republic of China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

By using the Schauder fixed point theorem and analysis method, we establish the existence of solutions for the m-point boundary value problem u"(t) + a(t)f(u) = 0, u(0)= 0, u(1) - Σi=1m-2kiu(ξi) = b, where b, ki 0 (i = 1,2,...,m - 2),0 1 2 m-2 a(t) is allowed to be singular at t = 0,1. Under some conditions, we show that there exists a positive number b* such that the problem has at least one positive solution for 0 b b* and no solution for b b*.