Existence of symmetric positive solutions for a boundary value problem with integral boundary conditions (Q540308)

The author studies the existence of symmetric positive solutions for the nonlinear nonlocal boundary problem \[ (g(t)x'(t))'+w(t)f(t,x(t))=0, \] \[ ax(0)-b\lim_{t\to 0^+} g(t)x'(t)=\int^1_0h(s)x(s)\,ds,\quad ax(1)+b\lim_{t\to 1^{-}} g(t)x'(t)=\int^1_0h(s)x(s)\,ds, \] where \(a,b>0\), \(g\in C^1([0,1], (0, \infty))\), \(w\in L^p(0,1)\) and \(h\in L^1((0,1),(0,\infty))\) are symmetric on \([0,1]\), respectively; \(f:[0,1]\times [0,\infty)\to [0,\infty)\) is continuous and \(f(t, x)=f(1-t,x)\). The main tool is the theory of fixed point index.