Differential inequalities method to \(n\)th-order boundary value problems (Q2471844)

The authors present existence criteria for solutions of the \(n\)th-order differential equation \[ y^{(n)}= f(t,y,y',\dots, y^{(n-1)}) \] with the nonlinear boundary conditions \[ P_i(y(a), y'(a),\dots, y^{(n-1)}(a))= 0,\;i= 1,\dots, n-1,\;P_n(y(b), y'(b),\dots, y^{(n-1)}(b))= 0, \] where \(t\in [a,b]\), \(f\in C([a, b]\times\mathbb{R}^n, \mathbb{R}^n)\) and \(P_i\in C(\mathbb{R}^n, \mathbb{R}^n)\) for \(i= 1,\dots, n\). In addition, the authors also consider more general boundary conditions of the form \[ P_i(y(a), y'(a),\dots, y^{(n-1)}(a), y(b), y'(b),\dots, y^{(n-1)}(b))= 0, \] \(i= 1,\dots, n\), where \(P_i\in C(\mathbb{R}^{2n}, \mathbb{R})\) for \(i= 1,2,\dots, n\). They apply the differential inequality methods, the bounding function method, and topological degree theory to obtain their results.