The role of concavity in applications of Avery type fixed point theorems to higher order differential equations (Q2883202)

The authors apply an extension of a functional Avery-type fixed point theorem to higher-order ordinary differential equations of the form NEWLINE\[NEWLINE -x^{(k)}(t)=f(x(t)), \;\;t\in[0,n] NEWLINE\]NEWLINE and subject to the boundary conditions NEWLINE\[NEWLINE x(0)=x'(0)=\ldots=x^{(k-2)}(0)=0,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(f: \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}\) is continuous. The authors explain the role of the concept of generalized concavity which plays a key role in applications.