Existence of multiple positive solutions for one-dimensional \(p\)-Laplacian (Q819035)

Consider the following multipoint boundary value problem for the one-dimensional p-Laplacian \[ \left( \phi _{p}\left( u^{\prime }\right) \right) ^{\prime }+f(t,u)=0, \;t\in \left( 0,1\right), \] subject to the boundary conditions \[ \phi _{p}\left( u^{\prime }\left( 0\right) \right) =\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n-2}a_{i}\phi _{p}\left( u^{\prime }\left( \xi _{i}\right) \right) , \quad u(1)=\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n-2}b_{i}u(\xi _{i})\text{ with }\phi _{p}(s)=\left| s\right| ^{p-2}s,\;p>1, \] \[ 0<\xi _{1}<\xi _{2}<\dots <\xi _{n-2}<1,\;a_{i},\;b_{i} \] are nonnegative with \(\;0<\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n-2}a_{i}<1\) and \(\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n-2}b_{i}<1.\) The authors provide conditions that are sufficient for obtaining multiple positive solutions of the problem above. They use a fixed-point theorem for operators on a cone.