We use Brouwer degree to prove existence and multiplicity results for the solutions of some nonlinear second order difference equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We obtain in particular upper and lower solutions theorems, Ambrosetti-Prodi type results, and sharp existence conditions for nonlinearities which are bounded from below or from above.

The main goal in this paper is to prove the existence of radial positive solutions of the quasilinear elliptic system⎧ -Δpu = f(x,u,v) in Ω,⎨ -Δqv = g(x,u,v) in Ω,⎩ u = v = 0 on ∂Ω,where Ω is a ball in RN and f, g are positive continuous functions satisfying f(x, 0, 0) = g(x, 0, 0) = 0 and some growth conditions which correspond, roughly speaking, to superlinear problems. Two different sets of conditions, called strongly and weakly coupled, are given in order to obtain existence. We use...

We study the existence and positivity of solutions of a highly nonlinear periodic differential equation. In the process we convert the differential equation into an equivalent integral equation after which appropriate mappings are constructed. We then employ a modification of Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem introduced by T. A. Burton ([4], Theorem 3) to show the existence and positivity of solutions of the equation.

We study an Helium atom (composed of one nucleus and two electrons) submitted to a general time dependent electric field, modeled by the Hartree-Fock equation, whose solution is the wave function of the electrons, coupled with the classical Newtonian dynamics, for the position of the nucleus. We prove a result of existence and regularity for the Cauchy problem, where the main ingredients are a preliminary study of the regularity in a nonlinear Schrödinger equation with semi-group techniques and...

The system of nonlinear differential equations $$x^{\text{'}}+p_1\left(t\right)x^{{\alpha }_1}+q_1\left(t\right)y^{{\beta }_1}=0,y^{\text{'}}+p_2\left(t\right)x^{{\alpha }_2}+q_2\left(t\right)y^{{\beta }_2}=0,A$$ is under consideration, where ${\alpha }_i$ and ${\beta }_i$ are positive constants and $p_i\left(t\right)$ and $q_i\left(t\right)$ are positive continuous functions on $[a,\infty )$. There are three types of different asymptotic behavior at infinity of positive solutions $\left(x\right(t),y(t\left)\right)$ of (). The aim of this paper is to establish criteria for the existence of solutions of these three types by means of fixed point techniques. Special emphasis is placed on those solutions with both components decreasing to zero as $t\to \infty$, which can be...

The theory of maximal monotone operators is applied to prove the existence of weak periodic solutions for a nonlinear nonlocal problem. The stability of these solutions is a consequence of the Lipschitz continuous assumption on the diffusivity matrix and the death rate.

Our paper deals with the following nonlinear neutral differential equation with variable delay $$\frac{d}{dt}D{u}_t\left(t\right)=p\left(t\right)-a\left(t\right)u\left(t\right)-a\left(t\right)g\left(u(t-\tau \left(t\right))\right)-h(u\left(t\right),u(t-\tau \left(t\right))).$$ By using Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem we obtain the existence of periodic solution and by contraction mapping principle we obtain the uniqueness. A sufficient condition is established for the positivity of the above equation. Stability results of this equation are analyzed. Our results extend and complement some results obtained in the work [Yuan, Y., Guo, Z.: On the existence and stability of...