New results on the sign of the Green function of a two-point \(n\)-th order linear boundary value problem (Q2081694)

In this paper, there is studied the sign of the derivatives of the Green function of the problem \begin{align*} Ly&=0,\quad x\in [a, b],\\ y^{(i)}(a)&= y^{(j)}(b)=0,\quad i\in \alpha, \quad j\in \beta, \end{align*} where \(L: \mathcal{C}^n([a, b])\to \mathcal{C}([a, b])\) is given by \[ Ly=y^{(n)}+a_{n-1}(x)y^{(n-1)}+\cdots+a_0(x) y, \quad x\in [a, b], \] \(a_j \in \mathcal{C}([a, b])\), \(j\in \{0, \ldots, n-1\}\), \(\alpha=\{\alpha_1, \ldots, \alpha_k\}\), \(\beta=\{\beta_1, \ldots, \beta_{n-k}\}\), \(k\in \{1, \ldots, n-1\}\), \(\alpha_1, \beta_1\geq 0\), \(\alpha_k, \beta_{n-k}<n\). The authors analyze the sign of the derivatives of the solutions of related two-points \(n\)-th order boundary value problems subject to \(n-1\) boundary conditions. In the paper, is introduced the concept of hyperdisfocality.