Multiple symmetric positive solutions of a class of boundary value problems for higher order ordinary differential equations
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Abstract:
In this paper, the authors consider the boundary value problem \begin{gather} \tag {E} x^{(2m)}(t)+(-1)^{m+1} f(x(t))=0, \quad 0<t<1, \\ \tag {B} x^{(2i)}(0)=x^{(2i)}(1)=0, \quad i=0,1,2,\cdots ,m-1, \end{gather} and give sufficient conditions for the existence of any number of symmetric positive solutions of (E)–(B). The relationships between the results in this paper and some recent work by Henderson and Thompson (Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), 2373–2379) are discussed.References
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Additional Information
- John R. Graef
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37403
- Email: john-graef@utc.edu
- Chuanxi Qian
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762
- Email: qian@math.msstate.edu
- Bo Yang
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762
- Email: by2@ra.msstate.edu
- Received by editor(s): April 16, 2001
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: October 2, 2001
- Published electronically: June 18, 2002
- Communicated by: Carmen C. Chicone
- © Copyright 2002 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 131 (2003), 577-585
- MSC (2000): Primary 34B15
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06579-6
- MathSciNet review: 1933349