Positive solutions to boundary value problems for nonlinear difference equations

The authors consider the second-order difference equation \[ \Delta^2 y_{n-1}+ \lambda a_nf(y_n) =0,\quad n=1,2,\dots,T-1 \] with the boundary conditions \[ y_0=y_T= 0\quad\text{or}\quad y_0= \Delta y_{T-1}=0. \] Here \(\Delta y_n= y_{n+1}-y_n\), \(T\geq 2\) is an integer, \(\lambda>0\) is a parameter, \(a_n\geq 0\) for \(n=1,\dots,T-1\) and \(f:[0,\infty)\to[0,\infty)\) is a continuous function such that the limits \(f_0=\lim_{s\to 0+} (f(x)/x)\) and \(f_\infty= \lim_{x\to \infty} (f(x)/x)\) exist. They give sufficient conditions for the existence of a positive solution of the above boundary value problems. The proofs are based on a fixed point theorem due to Krasnosel'skii.

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