Bifurcation from infinity and higher order ordinary differential equations (Q1909983): Difference between revisions

The purpose of the paper is to obtain existence results for classes of \(n\)th order boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations: \(Ly(x)- \lambda_1(- 1)^{n- k} p(x) y(x)+ g(y(x))= h(x)\), \(a\leq x\leq b\), \(y^{(j)}(a)= 0\), \(j= 0,\dots, k- 1\), \(y^{(j)}(b)= 0\), \(j= 0,\dots, n- k- 1\), where \(k\in \{1, \dots, n- 1\}\) and \(Ly(x)= y^{(n)}+ a_{n- 1}(x) y^{(n- 1)}+\cdots+ a_0(x) y\). The authors rely on an abstract result concerning bifurcation from infinity to obtain continua of large positive or negative solutions.