Existence of multiple positive solutions for second order nonlinear dynamic BVPs by variational methods (Q878495)

The authors have employed variational techniques and critical point theory to obtain sufficient conditions for the existence of multiple positive solutions of second order dynamic equations with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions of the form \[ -u^{\Delta\Delta}(t)=f(t,u^\sigma(t)),\quad t\in J\cap T^{k^2},\quad u(a)=0=u(b), \] with \[ J=\begin{cases} [a,b)\cap T &\text{if }a<\sigma(a)\\ (a,b)\cap T &\text{if }a=\sigma(a), \end{cases} \] \(T\subset \mathbb R\) an arbitrary bounded time scale such that \(\min T= a\) and \(\max T= b\) and \(f:J\times\mathbb R\to\mathbb R\).