An existence theorem of a positive solution to a semipositone Sturm-Liouville boundary value problem (Q602818)

The paper deals with the existence of a positive solution for the nonlinear Sturm-Liouville boundary value problem: \[ (p(t) u'(t))'+ \lambda f(t,u(t))=0,\quad t \in (0,1), \] \[ au(0)-bp(0)u'(0)= 0, \quad cu(1)+d p(1)u'(1)=0, \] where \(\lambda > 0\), \(p(t) > 0\) and \(a,b,c,d\) are nonnegative constants, \(da+ac+cb> 0\). Applying Krasnosel'skii fixed point theorem for sufficiently small \(\lambda \), an existence theorem is proved.