Quasilinearization and rate of convergence for higher-order nonlinear periodic boundary-value problems (Q5929427)

The following higher-order nonlinear boundary value problem is considered: \[ u^{(n)}(t)=f(t,u(t)), \;t\in [0,T], \quad u^{(i)}(0)-u^{(i)}(T)=c_i,\;i=0,1,\dots , n-1,\tag{1} \] where \(f\) is a continuous function, and \(c_i\) are real constants. The existence of a pair of ordered lower and upper solutions to (1) is assumed. Then, for a fixed positive integer \(k\), the authors find sufficient conditions to ensure the existence of two sequences which converge, with rate of convergence \(k\), to the extremal solutions to (1) between the lower and the upper solution. For it, they use a modification of the quasilinearization method.