Positive solutions for second order singular boundary value problems with derivative dependence on infinite intervals (Q941651)

The authors present sufficient conditions for the existence of at least one positive solution and multiple positive solutions for the following second order boundary value problem on an unbounded domain: \[ \frac{1}{p(t)}(p(t)x'(t))'+\phi(t)f(t,x(t),p(t)x'(t))=0,\quad t\in (0,+\infty), \] \[ x(0)=0,\quad \lim_{t\to +\infty} p(t) x'(t)=0. \] The nonlinearity \(f(t,x,z)\) can be singular in the second or third variable. More precisely, in section 3 it is considered the case of a nonsingular nonlinearity; section 4 deals with nonlinearities that are singular in the third variable at zero but not in the first one; section 5 studies the case when \(f\) is singular at both \(x=0\) and \(z=0\); finally in section 6 the function \(f\) can be singular at \(x=0\) but not in \(z\). To achieve their results they mainly use fixed point index theory in a new cone of an adequate Banach space. The authors improve and generalize recent results in the literature. Several examples of the applicability of the results are presented in each section.