Triple positive solutions of a nonlocal boundary value problem for singular differential equations with \(p\)-Laplacian (Q370073)

The authors use the Leggett-William fixed point theorem to give sufficient conditions for the existence of triple positive solutions of the second-order differential equation of the form \[ (\phi_p(u'))'(t)+q(t)f(u(t),u'(t), (Tu)(t), (Su)(t))=0 \] satisfying the boundary conditions \[ \phi_p(u'(0))=\sum_{i=1}^{m-2}\beta_i\phi_p(u'(\eta_i)),\, u(1)=g(u'(1)), \] where \(\phi_p(s)=|s|^{p-2}s\) \( (p>1)\), \(0\leq \beta_i<1\), \(\sum\limits_{i=1}^{m-2}\beta_i<1\), \(0<\eta_1<\eta_2<\cdots<\eta_{m-2}\), and \(T, S\) are linear operators.