EXISTENCE OF POSITIVE SOLUTIONS FOR SUPERLINEAR SEMIPOSITONE m-POINT BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEMS

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EXISTENCE OF POSITIVE SOLUTIONS FOR SUPERLINEAR SEMIPOSITONE $m$-POINT BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEMS





This author studies the existence of positive solutions for the multipoint boundary value problem \[ \begin{aligned}&(p(t)u')'-q(t)u+\lambda\,f(t,\,u)=0,\qquad r<t<R,\\ &au(r)-bp(r)u'(r)=\sum_{i=1}^{m-2}\alpha_i u(\xi_i),\tag{1}\\ &cu(R)+dp(R)u'(R)=\sum_{i=1}^{m-2}\beta_i u(\xi_i),\end{aligned} \] where \(\lambda>0\), \(a,\,b,\,c,\,d,\,\alpha_i,\,\beta_i\in[0,\,\infty)\), \(\xi_i\in (r,\,R)\) are given constants. The main result states that if \(f\) is superlinear semipositone, that is \(\lim_{u\to +\infty}(f(t,\,u)/u)=+\infty\) and if there exists an \(M>0\) such that \(f(t,\,u)\geq -M\), with other proper conditions, the multipoint boundary value problem (1) has a positive solution for sufficiently small \(\lambda>0\). If \(\alpha_i=\beta_i=0\) for \(i=1,2,\dots,m-2\) and \(q(t)\equiv 0\), the multipoint boundary value problem (1) becomes the Sturm-Liouville two-point boundary value problem \[ \begin{aligned} &(p(t)u')'+\lambda\,f(t,\,u)=0,\qquad r<t<R,\\ &au(r)-bp(r)u'(r)=0,\tag{2}\\ &cu(R)+dp(R)u'(R)=0. \end{aligned} \] The main result extends the existence theorem on positive solutions for problem (2) obtained by \textit{V. Anuradha, D. D. Hai} and \textit{R. Shivaji} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 124, 757--763 (1996; Zbl 0857.34032)]. The arguments of this paper are based on the Guo-Krasnoselskii fixed-point theorem and are quite technical.




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