Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4642197 Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 2008 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

This paper deals with the existence of multiple positive solutions for the quasilinear second-order differential equation(φp(u′(t)))′+a(t)f(t,u(t))=0,t∈(0,1),subject to one of the following boundary conditions:φp(u′(0))=∑i=1m-2aiφp(u′(ξi)),u(1)=∑i=1m-2biu(ξi),oru(0)=∑i=1m-2aiu(ξi),φp(u′(1))=∑i=1m-2biφp(u′(ξi)),where φp(s)=|s|p-2s,p>1,0<ξ1<ξ2<⋯<ξm-2<1φp(s)=|s|p-2s,p>1,0<ξ1<ξ2<⋯<ξm-2<1, and ai,biai,bi satisfy ai,bi∈[0,∞)ai,bi∈[0,∞), (i=1,2,…,m-2)(i=1,2,…,m-2), 0<∑i=1m-2ai<1, 0<∑i=1m-2bi<1. Using the five functionals fixed point theorem, we provide sufficient conditions for the existence of multiple (at least three) positive solutions for the above boundary value problems.

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