Singular Dirichlet second-order BVPs with impulses. (Q1412357)

The existence of positive solutions of the singular boundary value problem with impulses \[ -u''= f(t, u(t), u'(t)), \;u(0)= u(T)= 0, \;u(t_i +)= J_i(u(t_i)), \;u'(t_i+)= M_i(u'(t_i)), \;1\leq i\leq p, \] is studied. Here, \(p\in\mathbb{N}\), \(0= t_0< t_1<\cdots< t_p< t_{p+1}\), \(u'(0)= \lim_{t\to 0+} u'(t)\), \(u'(t_i)= \lim_{t\to t^-_i} u'(t)\), \(1\leq i\leq p+1\). The results are obtained under the assumptions that \(J_i(0)= 0\), \(M_i(0)= 0\), \(\lim_{x\to\infty} {J_i(x)\over x}< \infty\), \(1\leq i\leq p\), \(\lim_{x\to\infty} {M_1(x)\over x}> 0\), \(\lim_{x\to\infty} {M_i(x)\over x}> 1\), \(2\leq i\leq p\), \(\lim_{x\to-\infty} {x\over M_p(x)}> 0\), \(\lim_{x\to-\infty} {x\over M_i(x)}> 1\), \(1\leq i\leq p-1\), and the function \(f(t, x,y)\) satisfies the Carathéodory conditions on the set \([0,T]\times ((0,\infty)\times \mathbb{R})\) and \(0< \psi(t)\leq f(t, x,y)\leq h(t,x+| y|)+ q(t)\,\omega(x)\) for a.e. \(t\in [0,T]\) and each \(x\in (0,+\infty)\), \(Y\in\mathbb{R}\), where \(\psi\), \(h\), \(q\) and \(\omega\) are suitable functions. The obtained results are valid also in the case when \(f(t,x,y)\) is singular in its phase variable \(x\). The authors use a priori bounds, regularization technique, topological degree arguments and Vitali's convergence theorem.