A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of positive solutions to the singular \(p\)-Laplacian (Q1431148)

Summary: This paper studies the boundary value problem \[ \bigl(\varphi_p (u')\bigr)'+ q(t)\bigl(f(u)+ g(u)\bigr)=0,\;0<t<1,\;u(0)= u(1)=0, \] in the case \(p>1\). A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of \(C^1 [0,1]\) positive solutions and a sufficient condition for the existence of \(C[0,1]\) positive solutions are presented.