On the solvability of a nonlinear two point BVP between the first two eigenvalues (Q755962)

When \(\lim_{| s| \to +\infty}| g(s)| =+\infty\), \(\lambda_ 1<\limsup_{s\to -\infty}2G(s)/s^ 2\leq \limsup_{s\to - \infty}g(s)/s<\lambda_ 2\), and \(\lambda_ 1<\liminf_{s\to +\infty}g(s)/s\leq \liminf_{s\to +\infty}2G(s)/s^ 2<\lambda_ 2\), where \(G(s)=\int^{s}_{0}g(t)dt\) and \(\lambda_ 1,\lambda_ 2\) are the first two eigenvalues of the problem \(u''=\lambda u\), \(u(a)=u(b)=0\), then the problem (1) \(u''+g(u)=p(x)\), \(u(a)=r_ 1\), \(u(b)=r_ 2\) has at least one solution for any \(r_ 1,r_ 2\in {\mathbb{R}}\) and \(p\in L^ 1(a,b)\). The proof of that and of a more general statement uses the topological degree theory and the needed a priori bounds are shown by means of some properties of oscillatory solutions of the differential equation from (1).