Consider boundary value problems for a functional differential equation $$\left\{\begin{array}{cc}{x}^{\left(n\right)}\left(t\right)=\left(T^{+}x\right)\left(t\right)-\left(T^{-}x\right)\left(t\right)+f\left(t\right),\hfill & t\in [a,b],\hfill \\ lx=c,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $T^{+},T^{-}:𝐂[a,b]\to 𝐋[a,b]$ are positive linear operators; $l:{\mathrm{𝐀𝐂}}^{n-1}[a,b]\to {ℝ}^n$ is a linear bounded vector-functional, $f\in 𝐋[a,b]$, $c\in {ℝ}^n$, $n\ge 2$. Let the solvability set be the set of all points $({𝒯}^{+},{𝒯}^{-})\in {ℝ}_2^{+}$ such that for all operators $T^{+}$, $T^{-}$ with $\parallel T^{\pm }{\parallel }_{𝐂\to 𝐋}={𝒯}^{\pm }$ the problems have a unique solution for every $f$ and $c$. A method of finding the solvability sets are proposed. Some new properties of these sets are obtained in various cases. We continue the investigations of the solvability sets started...

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.

We investigate the existence of positive solutions for a nonlinear second-order differential system subject to some $m$-point boundary conditions. The nonexistence of positive solutions is also studied.