A necessary and sufficient condition of existence of positive solutions for nonlinear singular differential systems (Q860580)

Using an iterative technique, the authors establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions to the singular differential system \[ -x'' = f(t, y), \] \[ -y'' = g(t, x), \] \[ x(0) = x(1) = 0, \, y(0) = y(1) = 0. \] Here the function \(f\) may be singular at either \(t = 0\) or at \(t = 1\). In the last section of the paper, the authors extend the results to the systems \[ -x'' = f(t, y, y''),\quad -y'' = g(t, x),\quad 0 < t < 1, \] \[ x(0) = x(1) = y(0) = y(1) = 0,\text{ and }(-1)^n x^{(2n)} = f(t, y),\;(-1)^m y^{(2m)} = g(t, x),\;0 < t < 1, \] \(x^{(2j)}(0) = x^{(2j)}(1) = 0, i = 0, \dots, n-1\), \(y^{(2k)}(0) = y^{(2k)}(1) = 0, k = 0, \dots , m-1\).