Nonresonance problem for higher-order systems (Q1856005)

The author studies the boundary value problem \[ u^{(m)}(t)=f(t,u(t),\dots,u^{(m-1)}(t))+ \sum_{k=0}^{m-1}t^k\lambda_k, \tag{1} \] \[ u^{(k)}(0)=u^{(k)}(T)=0,\qquad k=0, 1,\dots, m-1, \tag{2} \] where \(f\in C([0,T]\times \mathbb{R}^{nm}, \mathbb{R}^n)\), and \(\lambda_0,\dots,\lambda_{m-1}\in \mathbb{R}^n\) are vector parameters. Under growth conditions imposed on \(f\) (\(f\) can have at most linear growth in each variable), the existence of at least one solution \(u\in C^m([0,T],\mathbb{R}^n)\) to problem (1), (2) for some \(\lambda_0, \dots, \lambda_{m-1}\) is proved. The proof relies on an operator representation of the problem in the Hilbert space \(L_2([0,T],\mathbb{R}^n)\).