A constructive approach towards the method of solution-regions (Q1728054)

The method of solution-regions has been introduced by Frigon and is an outstanding generalization of various methods of obtaining uniqueness and multiplicity of solutions of differential problems, as the method of upper and lower solutions or solution-tubes. Furthermore, the method is closely related to that of Gaines and Mahwin concerning what they called bound sets. \par The author gives a constructive way to get admissible regions for the first order system \[ u^{\prime}(t)=f(t, u(t)) \text{ for a.e. } t \in I :=[a, b], \quad \Gamma(u-u(a))=r, \] where $r \in \mathbb{R}$ and $\Gamma : \mathscr{C}([a, b], \mathbb{R}) \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is a linear functional (which can be thought as $\Gamma : \mathscr{C}\left([a, b], \mathbb{R}^{n}\right) \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n}$ by action on each component such that $M :=\Gamma(1) \neq 0$ (1 understood as the constant function $ 1 $ on $[a,b]$). \par By means of this method, the author obtain existence and multiplicity results for the considered problem that generalize previous ones given in the literature.