Upper and lower solution method for fourth-order four-point boundary value problems (Q5919910)

This paper deals with the fourth-order four-point boundary value problem \[ u^{(4)}(t) =f(t,u,u''),\;t\in(0,1),\;u(0)=0,\;u(1)=a\;u(\tau),\;u''(0)=0,\;u''(1)= bu''(\xi).\tag{A} \] If there exist \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\), upper and lower solutions, authors proved the convergence to the extremal solutions of (A). Also, a new maximum principle to establish the existence results for (A) is given.