The fourth order periodic boundary value problem $u^{\left(4\right)}-m⁴u+F(t,u)=0$, 0 < t < 2π, with $u^{\left(i\right)}\left(0\right)=u^{\left(i\right)}\left(2\pi \right)$, i = 0,1,2,3, is studied by using the fixed point index of mappings in cones, where F is a nonnegative continuous function and 0 < m < 1. Under suitable conditions on F, it is proved that the problem has at least two positive solutions if m ∈ (0,M), where M is the smallest positive root of the equation tan mπ = -tanh mπ, which takes the value 0.7528094 with an error of $\pm {10}^{-7}$.

Let $a₁,...,a_k$ be arbitrary nonzero real numbers. An $(a₁,...,a_k)$-decomposition of a function f:ℝ → ℝ is a sum $f₁+\cdots +f_k=f$ where $f_i:ℝ\to ℝ$ is an $a_i$-periodic function. Such a decomposition is not unique because there are several solutions of the equation $h₁+\cdots +h_k=0$ with $h_i:ℝ\to ℝa_i$-periodic. We will give solutions of this equation with a certain simple structure (trivial solutions) and study whether there exist other solutions or not. If not, we say that the $(a₁,...,a_k)$-decomposition is essentially unique. We characterize those periods for which essential...

The paper deals with the existence and uniqueness of 2π-periodic solutions for the odd-order ordinary differential equation $u^{(2n+1)}=f(t,u,u^{\text{'}},...,u^{\left(2n\right)})$, where $f:ℝ\times {ℝ}^{2n+1}\to ℝ$ is continuous and 2π-periodic with respect to t. Some new conditions on the nonlinearity $f(t,x₀,x₁,...,x_{2n})$ to guarantee the existence and uniqueness are presented. These conditions extend and improve the ones presented by Cong [Appl. Math. Lett. 17 (2004), 727-732].

Using known results on operator-valued Fourier multipliers on vector-valued function spaces, we give necessary or sufficient conditions for the well-posedness of the second order degenerate equations (P₂): d/dt (Mu’)(t) = Au(t) + f(t) (0 ≤ t ≤ 2π) with periodic boundary conditions u(0) = u(2π), (Mu’)(0) = (Mu’)(2π), in Lebesgue-Bochner spaces $L^p(,X)$, periodic Besov spaces $B_{p,q}^s(,X)$ and periodic Triebel-Lizorkin spaces $F_{p,q}^s(,X)$, where A and M are closed operators in a Banach space X satisfying D(A) ⊂ D(M)....

The fixed point theorem of Krasnoselskii and the concept of large contractions are employed to show the existence of a periodic solution of a nonlinear integro-differential equation with variable delay $$x^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)=-{\int }_{t-\tau \left(t\right)}^{t}a(t,s)g\left(x\left(s\right)\right)ds+\frac{d}{dt}Q(t,x(t-\tau \left(t\right)))+G(t,x\left(t\right),x(t-\tau \left(t\right))).$$ We transform this equation and then invert it to obtain a sum of two mappings one of which is completely continuous and the other is a large contraction. We choose suitable conditions for $\tau$, $g$, $a$, $Q$ and $G$ to show that this sum of mappings fits into the framework of a modification of...

We prove an Ambrosetti–Prodi type result for the periodic solutions of the equation $\left(\right|u^{\text{'}}{|}^{p-2}{u}^{\text{'}}{\left)\right)}^{\text{'}}+f\left(u\right)u^{\text{'}}+g(x,u)=t$, when $f$ is arbitrary and $g(x,u)\to +\infty$ or $g(x,u)\to -\infty$ when $\left|u\right|\to \infty$. The proof uses upper and lower solutions and the Leray–Schauder degree.

By using the well-known Leggett–Williams multiple fixed point theorem for cones, some new criteria are established for the existence of three positive periodic solutions for a class of n-dimensional functional differential equations with impulses of the form ⎧y’(t) = A(t)y(t) + g(t,yt), $t\ne t_j$, j ∈ ℤ, ⎨ ⎩$y\left(t{⁺}_j\right)=y\left(t{¯}_j\right)+I_j\left(y\left(t_j\right)\right)$, where $A\left(t\right)={\left(a_{ij}\left(t\right)\right)}_{n\times n}$ is a nonsingular matrix with continuous real-valued entries.

In this paper we study existence and uniqueness of solutions for the Hammerstein equation $$u\left(x\right)=v\left(x\right)+\lambda {\int }_{I_a^b}K(x,y)f(y,u\left(y\right))dy$$ in the space of function of bounded total $\varphi$-variation in the sense of Hardy-Vitali-Tonelli, where $\lambda \in ℝ$, $K:I_a^b\times I_a^b⟶ℝ$ and $f:I_a^b\times ℝ⟶ℝ$ are suitable functions. The existence and uniqueness of solutions are proved by means of the Leray-Schauder nonlinear alternative and the Banach contraction mapping principle.

Let K be a closed convex cone with nonempty interior in a real Banach space and let cc(K) denote the family of all nonempty convex compact subsets of K. A family $F^t:t\ge 0$ of continuous linear set-valued functions $F^t:K\to cc\left(K\right)$ is a differentiable iteration semigroup with F⁰(x) = x for x ∈ K if and only if the set-valued function $\Phi (t,x)=F^t\left(x\right)$ is a solution of the problem $D_t\Phi (t,x)=\Phi (t,G\left(x\right)):=\bigcup \Phi (t,y):y\in G\left(x\right)$, Φ(0,x) = x, for x ∈ K and t ≥ 0, where $D_t\Phi (t,x)$ denotes the Hukuhara derivative of Φ(t,x) with respect to t and $G\left(x\right):=li{m}_{s\to 0+}(F^s\left(x\right)-x)/s$ for x ∈ K.

Consider the following higher order difference equation $$x(n+1)=f(n,x(n\left)\right)+g(n,x(n-k\left)\right),n=0,1,\cdots$$ where $f(n,x)$ and $g(n,x):\{0,1,\cdots \}\times [0,\infty )\to [0,\infty )$ are continuous functions in $x$ and periodic functions in $n$ with period $p$, and $k$ is a nonnegative integer. We show the existence of a periodic solution $\left\{\tilde{x}\left(n\right)\right\}$ under certain conditions, and then establish a sufficient condition for $\left\{\tilde{x}\left(n\right)\right\}$ to be a global attractor of all nonnegative solutions of the equation. Applications to Riccati difference equation and some other difference equations derived from mathematical biology are also...

In this paper, we propose an extension of a periodic $GARCH$ ($PGARCH$) model to a Markov-switching periodic $GARCH$ ($MS$-$PGA$ $RCH$), and provide some probabilistic properties of this class of models. In particular, we address the question of strictly periodically and of weakly periodically stationary solutions. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions ensuring the existence of higher order moments. We further provide closed-form expressions for calculating the even-order moments as well...

A general theorem (principle of a priori boundedness) on solvability of the boundary value problem $$\mathrm{d}x=\mathrm{d}A\left(t\right)·f(t,x),h\left(x\right)=0$$ is established, where $f:[a,b]\times {ℝ}^n\to {ℝ}^n$ is a vector-function belonging to the Carathéodory class corresponding to the matrix-function $A:[a,b]\to {ℝ}^{n\times n}$ with bounded total variation components, and $h:{BV}_s([a,b],{ℝ}^n)\to {ℝ}^n$ is a continuous operator. Basing on the mentioned principle of a priori boundedness, effective criteria are obtained for the solvability of the system under the condition $x\left(t_1\left(x\right)\right)=ℬ\left(x\right)·x\left(t_2\left(x\right)\right)+c_0,$ where $t_i:{BV}_s([a,b],{ℝ}^n)\to [a,b]$ $(i=1,2)$ and $ℬ:{BV}_s([a,b],{ℝ}^n)\to {ℝ}^n$ are continuous...

We investigate the existence of infinitely many periodic solutions for the $p\left(t\right)$-Laplacian Hamiltonian systems. By virtue of several auxiliary functions, we obtain a series of new super-$p^{+}$ growth and asymptotic-$p^{+}$ growth conditions. Using the minimax methods in critical point theory, some multiplicity theorems are established, which unify and generalize some known results in the literature. Meanwhile, we also present an example to illustrate our main results are new even in the case $p\left(t\right)\equiv p=2$. ...

We identify the torus with the unit interval [0,1) and let n,ν ∈ ℕ with 0 ≤ ν ≤ n-1 and N:= n+ν. Then we define the (partially equally spaced) knots $t_j$ = ⎧ j/(2n) for j = 0,…,2ν, ⎨ ⎩ (j-ν)/n for for j = 2ν+1,…,N-1. Furthermore, given n,ν we let $V_{n,\nu }$ be the space of piecewise linear continuous functions on the torus with knots $t_j:0\le j\le N-1$. Finally, let $P_{n,\nu }$ be the orthogonal projection operator from L²([0,1)) onto $V_{n,\nu }$. The main result is $li{m}_{n\to \infty ,\nu =1}\left|\right|P_{n,\nu }:L^{\infty }\to L^{\infty }\left|\right|=su{p}_{n\in \mathbb{N},0\le \nu \le n}\left|\right|P_{n,\nu }:L^{\infty }\to L^{\infty }\left|\right|=2+(33-18\surd 3)/13$. This shows in particular that the Lebesgue constant of the classical...