Existence theorems for a class of singular two-point B.V.P. of second order differential equations (Q1197399)

The author proves some existence theorems for two-point boundary value problems for a differential equation of the form \(b(t)(a(t)x')'=f(t,x,a(t),x'),\quad x\in E\), where \(a,b:[0,1] \rightarrow R\) and \(f:[0,1]\times R^ 2 \rightarrow R\) are continuous functions, \(a\),\(b\) are positive in \((0,1)\), and \(E\) denotes the space of boundary conditions. The main attention is put to the singular case \( a(0)a(1)b(0)b(1)=0\); however the regular case, where \(a>0\) and \(b>0\), is also considered. \(1/a\) is supposed to be integrable or not. In both cases existence theorems are proved using a sequence of regular problems of the same type.