Existence of positive solutions of Sturm-Liouville boundary value problems for a nonlinear singular second order differential system with a parameter (Q711513)

The authors consider the following nonlinear singular second order ordinary differential system \[ x''(t) + \psi[f(t, y(t)) + p(t)] = 0\text{ for a.e. }t \in (0, 1), \] \[ y''(t) + g(t, x(t))=0\text{ for a.e. }t \in (0, 1) \] with Sturm-Liouville boundary value conditions \[ \alpha_1 x(0) - \beta_1 x'(0) = 0,\quad \gamma_1 x(1) + \delta_1 x'(1) = 0 \] and \(\alpha_2 y(0) - \beta_2 y'(0) = 0\), \(\gamma_2 y(1) + \delta_2 y'(1) = 0\), where \(\psi > 0\), \(\alpha_i > 0\), \(\beta_i \geq 0\), \(\gamma_i > 0\), \(\delta_i \geq 0\) are constants satisfying \(\alpha_i \gamma_i + \alpha_i \delta_i + \beta_i \gamma_i > 0\) for \(i = 1, 2\), \(f, g:(0, 1) \times [0, \infty) \rightarrow [0, \infty)\) are continuous and may have a singularity (unbounded) at \(t = 0, 1\), \(p:(0, 1) \rightarrow (-\infty, \infty)\) is Lebesgue integrable and may have finitely many singularities in \([0, 1]\). A solution \((x, y) \in C[0, 1] \cap C^2 (0, 1) \times C[0, 1] \cap C^2(0, 1)\) for a.e. \(t \in [0, 1]\) is called a positive solution if \(x(t) \geq 0\), \(y(t) \geq 0\) for any \(t \in [0, 1]\). Mainly, the authors investigate the existence of positive solutions through the fixed point theorem of cone expansion and compression of norm type.