Positive solutions for a higher-order \(m\)-point boundary value problem (Q1758620)

The author is concerned with the existence of positive solutions for the following higher-order nonlinear differential system: \[ \left\{\begin{aligned} & u^{(n)}(t)+\lambda b(t)f(u(t),v(t)),\\ &v^{(n)}(t)+\mu c(t)g(u(t),v(t)),\end{aligned}\right.\quad 0<t<T, \] associated with \(m\)-point boundary conditions \[ \left\{\begin{aligned} &u(0)=u'(0)=\dotsb=u^{(n-2)}(0)=0,\quad u(T)=\Sigma_{i=1}^{m-2}a_iu(\xi_i),\\ &v(0)=v'(0)=\dotsb=v^{(n-2)}(0)=0,\quad v(T)=\Sigma_{i=1}^{m-2}a_iv(\xi_i), \end{aligned}\right. \] where \(m\geq3\), \(0<\xi_1<\dotsb<\xi_{m-2}<T\), \(\lambda, \mu \) are positive parameters, \(a_i(t)>0\) for all \(i\). The functions \(b, c: [0,T]\to[0,\infty)\) are continuous and do not vanish identically; the nonlinearities \(f, g: [0,\infty)\to[0,\infty)\) are continuous functions with limits \[ \lim\limits_{(u,v)\to(+\infty,+\infty),(0^+,0^+)}\sup\frac{f(u,v)}{u+v} \] and \[ \lim\limits_{(u,v)\to(+\infty,+\infty),(0^+,0^+)}\sup\frac{g(u,v)}{u+v}. \] Under some conditions on the parameters \(\lambda, \mu\), the author proves the existence of positive solutions. Krasnosel'skii's fixed point theorem of cone compression and expansion is used. The paper ends with an example.