Twin solutions to singular boundary value problems (Q4955800)

In this paper, besides qualitative properties, the existence of two nonnegative nontrivial solutions to the singular \((n,p)\) problem \[ \begin{aligned} & y^{(n)}+\phi(t)[g(y(t))+h(y(t))],\quad 0<t<1,\\ & y^{(i)}(0)=0,\quad 0\leq i\leq n-2,\quad y^{(p)}(1)=0,\end{aligned} \] with \(n\geq 2\) and \(1\leq p\leq n-1\) fixed, is proved under suitable technical assumptions. As a consequence of the main result, the problem \[ \begin{aligned} & y''+\tfrac 13(y^{-\alpha}+y^\beta+1)=0,\quad 0<t<1,\\ & y(0)=y'(1)=0,\quad 0<\alpha<1<\beta,\end{aligned} \] has two solutions \(y_1\), \(y_2\in C^1[0,1]\cap C^2(0,1)\), with \(y_1>0\), \(y_2>0\) on \((0,1]\) and \(\|y_1\|_\infty<1< \|y_2\|_\infty\). Similar results are obtained for singular \((p,n-p)\) focal boundary value problems, and also extended to problems with possibly more general nonlinearities of type \(\phi(t)f(t,y)\).