Existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for a class of \(n\)th-order three-point boundary value problems in Banach spaces (Q2518100)

The authors study the existence, nonexistence, and multiplicity of positive solutions to a nonlinear three-point boundary value problem for a differential equation of order \(n\) in an ordered Banach space. The boundary value problem has the form \[ x^{(n)}(t)+ f(t, x(t), x'(t),\dots, x^{(n-2)}(t))= \theta,\quad t\in [0,1], \] \[ x^{(i)}(0)= \theta,\quad i= 0,1,\dots, n-2, \] \[ x^{(n-2)}(1)= \rho x^{(n-2)}(\eta), \] where \(\rho,\eta\in (0,1)\), and \(\theta\) is the zero element of the Banach space. The proofs employ fixed-point theory in cones.