Comparison results and existence of bounded solutions to strongly nonlinear second order differential equations

DOI10.12775/TMNA.2009.031MaRDI QIDQ1049705zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Cristina Marcelli, Francesca Papalini

Publication date 13 January 2010

Published in Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.12775/TMNA.2009.031

zbMATH Keywords

bounded solutionscomparison resultnon-compact intervalnonlinear ordinary differential operatorupper and lower solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Growth and boundedness of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C11) Applications of operator theory to differential and integral equations (47N20)

Review text

The paper provides the existence of bounded solutions on the whole real line (not necessarily heteroclinic) of the following strongly non-linear non-autonomous differential equation \[ (a(x(t))x'(t))'=f(t,x(t),x'(t)) \quad {\text a.e.}\;t\in \mathbb{R}, \tag{1} \] where \(f:\mathbb{R}^3\to \mathbb{R}\) is a Carathéodory function and \(a:\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}\) is a generic continuous positive function. The proofs are based on fixed-point techniques suitable combined to the method of upper and lower solutions. The authors establish comparison results providing sufficient conditions for any pair of lower and upper solutions of equation (1) to be well-ordered. Combining these results they present some general classes of nonlinear equations having a well-ordered pair of lower and upper solutions which leads to the existence of a bounded solution. An example is given.

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