Applications of variational methods to Sturm-Liouville boundary-value problem for fourth-order impulsive differential equations (Q2874189)

The authors study Sturm--Liouville boundary value problem for ODE's of the fourth order with impulses at fixed times NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \begin{aligned} &u^{(4)}(t) - u''(t) + u(t) = f(t,u(t)) \quad t \in [0,T] \setminus \{t_1,t_2,\ldots,t_\ell\},\\ &-\!\triangle u'''(t_i) = I_{1i}(u(t_i)), \quad i = 1,2,\ldots,\ell,\\ &-\!\triangle u''(t_i) = I_{2i}(u'(t_i)), \quad i = 1,2,\ldots,\ell,\\ &au(0) - bu'(0) = 0,\;cu(T) + du'(T) = 0,\\ &au''(0) - bu'''(0) = 0, \;cu''(T) + du'''(T) = 0, \end{aligned} NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(a,b,c,d \in \mathbb{R}\), \(0 < t_1 < t_2 < \ldots < t_\ell < T\), \(I_{1i},I_{2i} \in C(\mathbb{R};\mathbb{R})\), \(i=1,\ldots,\ell\), \(f \in C([0,T]\times\mathbb{R};\mathbb{R})\).NEWLINENEWLINEThere are obtained some new existence results. The variational approach for impulsive problems developed by \textit{J. J. Nieto} and \textit{D. O'Regan} in [Nonlinear Anal., Real World Appl. 10, No. 2, 680--690 (2009; Zbl 1167.34318)] is used.