Existence and multiplicity for positive solutions of a system of higher-order multi-point boundary value problems (Q354334)

The authors study a class of multi-point boundary value problems for systems of nonlinear higher-order ordinary differential equations \[ \begin{aligned} u^{n}(t)+f(t,v(t))=0,& \;\;t\in(0,T),\;n\in\mathbb{N},\;n\geq 2,\\ v^{m}(t)+g(t,u(t))=0,& \;\;t\in(0,T),\;m\in\mathbb{N},\;m\geq 2\end{aligned} \] with the multi-point boundary conditions \[ \begin{aligned} u(0)&=u'(0)=\dotsb=u^{n-2}(0)=0,\quad u(T)=\sum^{p-2}_{i=1}a_{i}u(\xi_{i}),\;\;p\in N,\;p\geq 2,\\ v(0)&=v'(0)=\dotsb=v^{m-2}(0)=0,\quad v(T)=\sum^{q-2}_{i=1}b_{i}v(\eta_{i}),\;\;q\in N,\;q\geq 2.\end{aligned} \] They prove that, under appropriate assumptions, the problem has at least one positive solution \((u(t),v(t))\), \(t\in[0,T]\).