Positive solutions of second-order \(m\)-point boundary value problems with changing sign singular nonlinearity (Q878994)

Using Krasnoselskii's fixed point theorem for cones, the authors obtain results guaranteeing the existence of positive solutions for the \(m\)-point boundary value problem \[ (p(t)x'(t))'-q(t)x(t)+\lambda f(t,x(t))=0,\quad t\in(0,1), \] \[ ax(0)-bp(0)x'(0)=\sum_{i=1}^{m-2}\alpha_ix(\xi_i),\quad cx(1)+dp(1)x'(1)=\sum_{i=1}^{m-2}\beta_ix(\xi_i), \] which may be singular at \(t=0\) and \(t=1.\) Here, \(\lambda>0\) is a parameter, \(a,c\in[0,\infty)\) and \(b,q\in(0,\infty)\) with \(ac+ad+bc>0,\) \(\xi_i\in(0,1)\), \(\alpha_i,\beta_i\in[0,\infty)\), \(i=1,2,\dots,m-2,\) are given constants, \(p\in C^1([0,1],(0,\infty))\), \(q\in C([0,1],(0,\infty))\) and \(f\in C((0,1)\times[0,\infty),(-\infty,\infty))\) satisfies \(-r(t)\leq f(t,x)\leq z(t)h(x)\) for any functions \(r,z\in C((0,1),(0,\infty))\) and \(h\in C([0,\infty),(0,\infty)).\)