Impulsive boundary value problems involving the one-dimensional \(p\)-Laplacian (Q1005277)

The authors study the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions of the multi-point boundary value problem \[ -(\phi(u'(t)))'=f(t, u(t)), \;t\neq t_k, \;t\in (0,1), \] \[ \Delta u|_{t=t_k}=I_k(u(t_k)),\quad t=1, 2, \dots, n,\quad u(0)=\sum^{m-2}_{i=1}a_i u(\xi_i),\quad u'(1)=0. \] Here, \(\phi_p(s)=|s|^{p-2}s\), \(p>1\), \(0<t_1<t_2<\cdots t_n<1\), \(0<\xi_1<\xi_2<\cdots \xi_n<1\), \(\xi_i\neq t_k\) for all \(i\in \{1, \dots, m-2\}\) and \(k\in \{1, \dots, n\}\), \(\Delta u|_{t=t_k}=u(t_k^+)-u(t_k^-)\), \(a_i\in (0,\infty)\) for \(i\in \{1, \dots, m-2\}\) and \(0<\sum^{m-2}_{i=1}a_i<1\).