Existence and uniqueness of positive solutions for fourth-order nonlinear singular continuous and discrete boundary value problems (Q2518708)

The authors consider the existence and uniqueness of positive solutions for the fourth-order nonlinear singular boundary value problem \[ \begin{aligned} u''''(t)- \lambda q(t) f \big(u(t),-u''(t)\big)&= 0, \quad 0<t <1,\\ \alpha_1 u(0)-\beta_1 u'(0)&= 0, \\ \gamma_1 u(1)+\delta_1 u'(1)&= 0, \\ \alpha_2 u''(0)-\beta_2 u'''(0)&= 0, \\ \gamma_2 u''(1)+\delta_2 u'''(1)&= 0, \end{aligned} \] where \(\lambda>0\), \(\alpha_i, \beta_i, \delta_i, \gamma_i\geq 0\), \(i=1,2\) are constants such that \(\beta_i\gamma_i+ \alpha_i\gamma_i+ \alpha_i\delta_i> 0\), \(i=1,2\), and \(q\) and \(f\) are singular functions, as well as its discrete counterpart. They treat the problems as a set of nested second-order problems and use the mixed monotone method to establish the existence and uniqueness of solutions of each respective second-order problems. For both the continuous and discrete problems the authors provide examples illustrating their theorems.