The paper deals with the existence of multiple positive solutions for the boundary value problem $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}{\left(\varphi \left(p\left(t\right)u^{(n-1)}\right)\left(t\right)\right)}^{\text{'}}+a\left(t\right)f(t,u\left(t\right),u^{\text{'}}\left(t\right),...,u^{(n-2)}\left(t\right))=0,0<t<1,\hfill \\ u^{\left(i\right)}\left(0\right)=0,i=0,1,...,n-3,\hfill \\ u^{(n-2)}\left(0\right)=\sum _{i=1}^{m-2}{\alpha }_i{u}^{(n-2)}\left({\xi }_i\right),u^{(n-1)}\left(1\right)=0,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $\varphi :ℝ\to ℝ$ is an increasing homeomorphism and a positive homomorphism with $\varphi \left(0\right)=0$. Using a fixed-point theorem for operators on a cone, we provide sufficient conditions for the existence of multiple positive solutions to the above boundary value problem.

In this paper, we are concerned with the existence of one-signed solutions of four-point boundary value problems $$-u^{\text{'}\text{'}}+Mu=rg\left(t\right)f\left(u\right),u\left(0\right)=u\left(\epsilon \right),u\left(1\right)=u(1-\epsilon )$$ and $$u^{\text{'}\text{'}}+Mu=rg\left(t\right)f\left(u\right),u\left(0\right)=u\left(\epsilon \right),u\left(1\right)=u(1-\epsilon ),$$ where $\epsilon \in (0,1/2)$, $M\in (0,\infty )$ is a constant and $r>0$ is a parameter, $g\in C\left(\right[0,1],(0,+\infty \left)\right)$, $f\in C(ℝ,ℝ)$ with $sf\left(s\right)>0$ for $s\ne 0$. The proof of the main results is based upon bifurcation techniques.

We give conditions which guarantee the existence of positive solutions for a variety of arbitrary order boundary value problems for which all boundary conditions involve functionals, using the well-known Krasnosel'skiĭ fixed point theorem. The conditions presented here deal with a variety of problems, which correspond to various functionals, in a uniform way. The applicability of the results obtained is demonstrated by a numerical application.

This paper investigates the existence of positive solutions for a fourth-order differential system using a fixed point theorem of cone expansion and compression type.

The aim of this paper is to study the existence of solutions to a boundary value problem associated to a nonlinear fractional differential equation where the nonlinear term depends on a fractional derivative of lower order posed on the half-line. An appropriate compactness criterion and suitable Banach spaces are used and so a fixed point theorem is applied to obtain fixed points which are solutions of our problem.

We study the existence of positive solutions of the nonlinear fourth order problem $u^{\left(4\right)}\left(x\right)=\lambda a\left(x\right)f\left(u\left(x\right)\right)$, u(0) = u’(0) = u”(1) = u”’(1) = 0, where a: [0,1] → ℝ may change sign, f(0) < 0, and λ < 0 is sufficiently small. Our approach is based on the Leray-Schauder fixed point theorem.