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We consider the existence of at least one positive solution to the dynamic boundary value problem $$\begin{array}{cccc}\hfill -y^{\Delta \Delta }\left(t\right)& =\lambda f(t,y\left(t\right))\text{,}t\in {[0,T]}_{𝕋}y\left(0\right)\hfill & \hfill ={\int }_{{\tau }_1}^{{\tau }_2}{F}_1(s,y\left(s\right))\Delta sy\left({\sigma }^2\left(T\right)\right)& ={\int }_{{\tau }_3}^{{\tau }_4}{F}_2(s,y\left(s\right))\Delta s,\hfill \end{array}$$ where $𝕋$ is an arbitrary time scale with $0<{\tau }_1<{\tau }_2<{\sigma }^2\left(T\right)$ and $0<{\tau }_3<{\tau }_4<{\sigma }^2\left(T\right)$ satisfying ${\tau }_1$, ${\tau }_2$, ${\tau }_3$, ${\tau }_4\in 𝕋$, and where the boundary conditions at $t=0$ and $t={\sigma }^2\left(T\right)$ can be both nonlinear and nonlocal. This extends some recent results on second-order semipositone dynamic boundary value problems, and we illustrate these extensions with some examples.

In this paper we consider a coupled system of second-order boundary value problems with nonlocal, nonlinear boundary conditions, and we examine conditions under which such problems will have at least one positive solution. By imposing only an asymptotic growth condition on the nonlinear boundary functions, we are able to achieve generalizations over existing works and, in particular, we allow for the nonlocal terms to be able to be realized as Lebesgue-Stieltjes integrals possessing signed Borel...

We consider the summation equation, for $t\in {[\mu -2,\mu +b]}_{{\mathbb{N}}_{\mu -2}}$, $$\begin{array}{ccc}\hfill y\left(t\right)={\gamma }_1\left(t\right)H_1\left(\sum _{i=1}^n{a}_{i}y\left({\xi }_i\right)\right)& +{\gamma }_2\left(t\right)H_2\left(\sum _{i=1}^m{b}_{i}y\left({\zeta }_i\right)\right)\hfill & \hfill +\lambda \sum _{s=0}^{b}G(t,s)f(s+\mu -1,y(s+\mu -1))\end{array}$$ in the case where the map $(t,s)\mapsto G(t,s)$ may change sign; here $\mu \in (1,2]$ is a parameter, which may be understood as the order of an associated discrete fractional boundary value problem. In spite of the fact that $G$ is allowed to change sign, by introducing a new cone we are able to establish the existence of at least one positive solution to this problem by imposing some growth conditions on the functions $H_1$ and $H_2$. Finally, as an application of the abstract existence result,...