Singularly perturbed higher order boundary value problems (Q1332165)

The author considers the boundary value problem \(\varepsilon^ 2\cdot y^{(n)}= f(x,y,\dots, y^{(n-3)},y^{(n-2)})\), \(n\geq 3\), \({\mathcal B}y= 0\), \({\mathcal L}y= 0\), \(x\in \langle 0,1\rangle\), where \(\varepsilon> 0\), \(y^{(i)}= (d^ i/dt^ i)y\), \(f= f(x,z,v)\), \(f: \langle 0,1\rangle\times \mathbb{R}^{n-2}\times \mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}\), \(\mathcal L\) is a linear two-point boundary value condition for derivatives up to order \(n- 3\) and \(\mathcal B\) has one of the following forms: (a) \(y^{(n-2)}(0)= y^{(n-2)}(1)= 0\), (b) \(y^{(n-2)}(0)= y^{(n-1)}(1)= 0\), (c) \(y^{(n-1)}(0)= y^{(n-2)}(1)= 0\). Using the Leray-Schauder degree theory, the author proves that under certain given conditions the above system has precisely one solution \(y_ \varepsilon\) and for each \(\varepsilon> 0\), \(y_ \varepsilon\to u_ 0\) in \(C^{n-2}\) as \(\varepsilon\to 0\) (\(u_ 0\) is the unique solution of the reduced system).