Existence of positive solutions for one dimensional Minkowski curvature problem with singularity (Q6051189)

This paper concerned with the existence of solutions for the following one dimensional Minkowski curvature problem with singularity of the form \[ \begin{cases} -(\phi(u'(t)))'=\lambda h(t)f(t,u(t)),\quad t\in (0,1),\\ u(0)=u(1)=0, \end{cases} \] where \(\phi(s)=s/\sqrt{1-s^2}, s\in(-1,1)\), \(\lambda>0\) is a parameter, \(h\not\equiv 0\) on any subinterval in \((0,1)\), \(h\in \mathcal{H}=\{h\in C((0,1),[0,\infty)): \int_0^1t(1-t)h(t)\textrm{d}t<\infty\}\), and \(f\in C([0,1]\times[0,1/2),[0,\infty))\) or \(f\in C([0,1]\times(0,\infty),(0,\infty))\). In this paper, the authors obtain new existence results of positive solutions under different assumptions on the nonlinear term. The main tool are fixed point arguments and perturbation technique.