Multiple positive solutions to a fourth-order boundary-value problem

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Authors Alberto Cabada, Radu Precup, Lorena Saavedra, Stepan Agop Tersian

Publication date 11 October 2016

Published in Electronic Journal of Differential Equations (EJDE) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02129, http://www.emis.de/journals/EJDE/Volumes/2016/254/abstr.html

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zbMATH Keywords

boundary-value problemcritical pointfixed pointfourth-order differential equationpositive solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Positive solutions to nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B18) Equations involving nonlinear operators (general) (47J05) Applications of operator theory to differential and integral equations (47N20) Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences (58E50)

Abstract: We study the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for a nonlinear fourth-order two-point boundary value problem. The approach is based on critical point theorems in conical shells, Krasnoselskii's compression-expansion theorem, and unilateral Harnack type inequalities.

Review text

In this paper, the authors consider the \(4^{th}\)-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation: NEWLINE\[NEWLINE u^{(4)}(t)=f(t,u(t)),\quad 0<t<1, NEWLINE\]NEWLINE subject to homogeneous boundary conditions NEWLINE\[NEWLINE u(0) = u'(0) = u(1) = u'(1) = 0. NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The authors mix a fixed point approach both with a variational formulation to prove existence of positive solutions. More precisely, they seek critical points of some functional in a conical shell and then employ the compression-expansion Krasnosel'skii's fixed point theorem in cones of Banach spaces. Under positivity, monotonicity, and growth conditions on the nonlinearity \(f\), they prove existence of solutions first in the Sobolev space \(H^2\) and then in \(C^4\). Comparison estimates upon solutions are obtained. Illustrative examples of application are provided in this paper.

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