Nonresonant singular boundary value problems with sign changing nonlinearities (Q2570788)

Existence of positive solutions is proved for the Dirichlet problem \[ y'' + q(t) f(t, y) = 0, \qquad y(0) = y(1) = 0, \] on the interval \(I = [0, 1]\) in cases, where \(f\) is allowed to change sign and where \(f\) is singular not only at the boundary of \(I\) but also at \(y= 0\). The proof uses certain truncated auxiliary problems to which the Schauder fixed-point theorem can be applied, thus producing a sequence of approximate solutions which converges uniformly on compact subsets of \(]0, 1[\) to a solution. The assumptions of the main existence theorem (Theorem. 2.1) involve the existence of a positive lower solution satisfying the boundary conditions, and conditions are exhibited under which such a lower solution can be constructed. The paper also contains some variants and ramifications of the basic existence result as well as a nontrivial example of an explicit nonlinearity satisfying all assumptions.