Some sufficient conditions on the existence and multiplicity of solutions for the damped vibration problems with impulsive effects ⎧ u”(t) + g(t)u’(t) + f(t,u(t)) = 0, a.e. t ∈ [0,T ⎨ u(0) = u(T) = 0 ⎩ $\Delta u^{\text{'}}\left(t_j\right)=u^{\text{'}}(t{⁺}_j-u^{\text{'}}\left(t{¯}_j\right)=I_j\left(u\left(t_j\right)\right)$, j = 1,...,p, are established, where $t₀=0<t₁<\cdots <t_p<t_{p+1}=T$, g ∈ L¹(0,T;ℝ), f: [0,T] × ℝ → ℝ is continuous, and $I_j:ℝ\to ℝ$, j = 1,...,p, are continuous. The solutions are sought by means of the Lax-Milgram theorem and some critical point theorems. Finally, two examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of our results....

This paper discusses the existence and multiplicity of solutions for a class of $p\left(x\right)$-Kirchhoff type problems with Dirichlet boundary data of the following form $$\left\}\begin{array}{cc}-\left(a+b{\int }_{\Omega }\frac{1}{p\left(x\right)}{\left|\nabla u\right|}^{p\left(x\right)}dx\right){\mathrm{div}\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{p\left(x\right)-2}\nabla u)=f(x,u),\hfill & in\Omega \hfill \\ u=0\hfill & on\partial \Omega ,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $\Omega$ is a smooth open subset of ${ℝ}^N$ and $p\in C\left(\overline{\Omega }\right)$ with $N<p^{-}={inf}_{x\in \Omega }p\left(x\right)\le p^{+}={sup}_{x\in \Omega }p\left(x\right)<+\infty$, $a$, $b$ are positive constants and $f:\overline{\Omega }\times ℝ\to ℝ$ is a continuous function. The proof is based on critical point theory and variable exponent Sobolev space theory.

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 consider the boundary value problem involving the one dimensional $p$-Laplacian, and establish the precise intervals of the parameter for the existence and non-existence of solutions with prescribed numbers of zeros. Our argument is based on the shooting method together with the qualitative theory for half-linear differential equations.

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 provide existence and stability results for semilinear Dirichlet problems with nonlinearities satisfying some general local growth conditions. We derive a general abstract result which we then apply to prove the existence of solutions, their stability and continuous dependence on parameters for a sixth order ODE with Dirichlet type boundary data.

We solve the problem of the existence and uniqueness of coexistence states for the classical predator-prey model of Lotka-Volterra with diffusion in the scalar case.