A note on upper and lower solutions for singular initial value problems

DOI10.1002/1099-1476(20010110)24:1%3C49::AID-MMA192%3E3.0.CO;2-BMaRDI QIDQ2707982zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ravi P. Agarwal, Donal O'Regan

Publication date 14 June 2001

Published in Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/1099-1476(20010110)24:1%3C49::AID-MMA192%3E3.0.CO;2-B

zbMATH Keywords

approximate methodssingular initial value problemsupper and lower solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems, existence, uniqueness, continuous dependence and continuation of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34A12) Theoretical approximation of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34A45)

Review text

The authors study the existence of solutions to the first-order singular initial value problem \(y'(t) = q(t) f(t,y(t))\), \(0 < t < T\); \(y(0)=0\), where \(T>0\) is fixed, the nonlinearity \(f\) is allowed to change sign and \(f\) may be nonsingular at \(y=0\). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEAssuming, among others, the existence of a pair of lower and upper solutions to this problem, they prove the existence of a solution over the lower one. In the proof they construct a sequence of truncated approximate nonsingular problems that, by the theory of lower and upper solutions for nonsingular problems admits at least one solution lying between both functions. The solution to the singular problem is given as the limit of the solutions to the nonsingular ones. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEMoreover, they prove different existence results in this direction and present some examples to illustrate the obtained results.

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