A class of impulsive boundary value problems of fractional differential systems is studied. Banach spaces are constructed and nonlinear operators defined on these Banach spaces. Sufficient conditions are given for the existence of solutions of this class of impulsive boundary value problems for singular fractional differential systems in which odd homeomorphism operators (Definition 2.6) are involved. Main results are Theorem 4.1 and Corollary 4.2. The analysis relies on a well known fixed point...

Existence principles for solutions of singular differential systems${\left(\phi \left(u^{\text{'}}\right)\right)}^{\text{'}}=f(t,u,u^{\text{'}})$ satisfying nonlocal boundary conditions are stated. Here $\phi$ is a homeomorphism ${ℝ}^N$ onto ${ℝ}^N$ and the Carathéodory function $f$ may have singularities in its space variables. Applications of the existence principles are given.

We study a higher order parabolic partial differential equation that arises in the context of condensed matter physics. It is a fourth order semilinear equation which nonlinearity is the determinant of the Hessian matrix of the solution. We consider this model in a bounded domain of the real plane and study its stationary solutions both when the geometry of this domain is arbitrary and when it is the unit ball and the solution is radially symmetric. We also consider the initial-boundary value problem...

The existence of single and multiple nonnegative solutions for singular positone boundary value problems to the delay one-dimensional p-Laplacian is discussed. Throughout our nonlinearity f(·,y) may be singular at y = 0.

This paper studies the existence of solutions to the singular boundary value problem $$\left\}\begin{array}{c}-u^{\text{'}\text{'}}=g(t,u)+h(t,u),t\in (0,1),u\left(0\right)=0=u\left(1\right),\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $g(0,1)\times (0,\infty )\to ℝ$ and $h(0,1)\times [0,\infty )\to [0,\infty )$ are continuous. So our nonlinearity may be singular at $t=0,1$ and $u=0$ and, moreover, may change sign. The approach is based on an approximation method together with the theory of upper and lower solutions.

Sharp bounds on some distance-based graph invariants of $n$-vertex $k$-trees are established in a unified approach, which may be viewed as the weighted Wiener index or weighted Harary index. The main techniques used in this paper are graph transformations and mathematical induction. Our results demonstrate that among $k$-trees with $n$ vertices the extremal graphs with the maximal and the second maximal reciprocal sum-degree distance are coincident with graphs having the maximal and the second maximal reciprocal...

In the first part, we investigate the singular BVP $${\frac{d}{dt}}^c{D}^{\alpha }u+{(a/t)}^c{D}^{\alpha }u=\mathscr{H}u$$ , u(0) = A, u(1) = B, c D α u(t)|t=0 = 0, where $$\mathscr{H}$$ is a continuous operator, α ∈ (0, 1) and a < 0. Here, c D denotes the Caputo fractional derivative. The existence result is proved by the Leray-Schauder nonlinear alternative. The second part establishes the relations between solutions of the sequence of problems $${\frac{d}{dt}}^c{D}^{{\alpha }_n}u+{(a/t)}^c{D}^{{\alpha }_n}u=f(t,u{,}^c{D}^{{\beta }_n}u)$$ , u(0) = A, u(1) = B, $${\left.{}^c{D}^{{\alpha }_n}u\left(t\right)\right|}_{t=0}=0$$ where a < 0, 0 < β n ≤ α n < 1, limn→∞ β n = 1, and solutions of u″+(a/t)u′ = f(t, u, u′) satisfying...

We consider general second order boundary value problems on the whole line of the type $u^{\text{'}\text{'}}=h(t,u,u^{\text{'}})$, $u(-\infty )=0,u(+\infty )=1$, for which we provide existence, non-existence, multiplicity results. The solutions we find can be reviewed as heteroclinic orbits in the $(u,u^{\text{'}})$ plane dynamical system.