The existence of positive solutions for second-order multi-point BVPs with the first derivative (Q1006000)

The author studies, by means of classical fixed point index theory, the existence of positive solutions for second order boundary value problems of the type \[ \begin{gathered} u''(t)+h(t) f(t,u(t),u'(t))=0 \text{ for almost every } t \in (0,1),\\ u(0)=0,\;u'(1)=\sum_{i=1}^{m-2}\alpha_{i}u'(\xi_{i}),\\ \end{gathered} \] where \(\alpha_i\) are positive coefficients, \(0<\xi_{1}<\ldots<\xi_{m-2}<1\), \(h\in L^1[0,1]\) and \(f: [0,1]\times [0,\infty)\times [0,\infty)\to [0,\infty)\) satisfies Carathéodory conditions. The proofs use similar arguments to some of the ones in [\textit{J. R. L. Webb} and \textit{K. Q. Lan}, Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. 27, 91-115 (2006; Zbl 1146.34020)].