Positive solutions for a system of nonpositive difference equations

DOI10.1007/PL00000150MaRDI QIDQ5953387zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Johnny Henderson, Patricia J. Y. Wong

Publication date 29 December 2002

Published in Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/pl00000150

zbMATH Keywords

discrete boundary value problemspositive solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B15) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12)

Review text

The authors consider the discrete boundary value problem (BVP) \[ \Delta^nu_i(k)+q_i(k,u_1(k),u_2(k),\dots,u_m(k))=0,\quad k\in\{0,1,\dots,N\}, \] \[ \Delta^ju_i(0)=0=\Delta^{p_i}u_i(N+n-p_i),\quad 0\leq j\leq n-2,\;i=1,2,\dots,m, \] where \(n\geq 2\), \(N\geq n-1\), \(1\leq p_i\leq n-1\), \(1\leq i\leq m\), and the nonlinearities \(q_i\), \(1\leq i\leq m\), can be nonpositive. They establish discrete analogues of recent results concerning BVPs for ordinary differential equations, namely sufficient conditions for the existence of a positive solution (resp. of at least two solutions) of the given discrete BVP. The proofs are based on Krasnosel'skii's fixed point theorem in a cone with the use of inequalities for a certain Green's function.

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