We establish not only sufficient but also necessary conditions for existence of solutions to a singular multi-point third-order boundary value problem posed on the half-line. Our existence results are based on the Krasnosel’skii fixed point theorem on cone compression and expansion. Nonexistence results are proved under suitable a priori estimates. The nonlinearity $f=f(t,x,y)$ which satisfies upper and lower-homogeneity conditions in the space variables $x,y$ may be also singular at time $t=0$. Two examples of applications...

Two point boundary value problem for the linear system of ordinary differential equations with deviating arguments $$x^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)=A\left(t\right)x\left({\tau }_{11}\left(t\right)\right)+B\left(t\right)u\left({\tau }_{12}\left(t\right)\right)+q_1\left(t\right),u^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)=C\left(t\right)x\left({\tau }_{21}\left(t\right)\right)+D\left(t\right)u\left({\tau }_{22}\left(t\right)\right)+q_2\left(t\right),{\alpha }_{11}x\left(0\right)+{\alpha }_{12}u\left(0\right)=c_0,{\alpha }_{21}x\left(T\right)+{\alpha }_{22}u\left(T\right)=c_T$$ is considered. For this problem the sufficient condition for existence and uniqueness of solution is obtained. The same approach as in [2], [3] is applied.

The problem on the existence of a positive in the interval $]a,b[$ solution of the boundary value problem $$u^{\text{'}\text{'}}=f(t,u)+g(t,u)u^{\text{'}};u(a+)=0,u(b-)=0$$ is considered, where the functions $f$ and $g]a,b[\times ]0,+\infty [\to ℝ$ satisfy the local Carathéodory conditions. The possibility for the functions $f$ and $g$ to have singularities in the first argument (for $t=a$ and $t=b$) and in the phase variable (for $u=0$) is not excluded. Sufficient and, in some cases, necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of that problem are established.

New sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution of the boundary value problem for an ordinary differential equation of $n$-th order with certain functional boundary conditions are constructed by a method of a priori estimates.

An inverse problem for a nonlocal problem describing the temperature of a conducting device is studied.

This paper presents sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions to boundary-value problems of second order multi-valued differential inclusions. The existence of extremal solutions is also obtained under certain monotonicity conditions.

We prove the existence of extremal solutions of Dirichlet boundary value problems for u''a + fa(t,u,u'a) = 0 in l∞(A) between a generalized pair of upper and lower functions with respect to the coordinatewise ordering, and for f quasimonotone increasing in its second variable.