Existence of positive solutions for a fourth-order \(m\)-point boundary value problem (Q492611)

The authors provide several sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions of the fourth-order \(m\)-point boundary value problem \[ u^{(4)}+a(t)f(u)=0, \quad u'''(0)=u''(0)=u'(0)=0, \quad u(1)=\sum^{m-2}_{j=1}\beta_ju(\xi_j). \] The main tool is the fixed point theorem in cones. They also give applications to illustrate their main results.