We consider a linear nonautonomous higher order ordinary differential equation and establish the positivity conditions and two-sided bounds for Green’s function for the two-point boundary value problem. Applications of the obtained results to nonlinear equations are also discussed.

We propose an approach for studying positivity of Green’s operators of a nonlocal boundary value problem for the system of $n$ linear functional differential equations with the boundary conditions $n_i{x}_i-{\sum }_{j=1}^n{m}_{ij}{x}_j={\beta }_i$, $i=1,\cdots ,n$, where $n_i$ and $m_{ij}$ are linear bounded “local” and “nonlocal“ functionals, respectively, from the space of absolutely continuous functions. For instance, $n_i{x}_i=x_i\left(\omega \right)$ or $n_i{x}_i=x_i\left(0\right)-x_i\left(\omega \right)$ and $m_{ij}{x}_j={\int }_0^{\omega }k\left(s\right)x_j\left(s\right)\mathrm{d}s+{\sum }_{r=1}^{n_{ij}}{c}_{ijr}{x}_j\left(t_{ijr}\right)$ can be considered. It is demonstrated that the positivity of Green’s operator of nonlocal problem follows from the positivity of Green’s operator...

We aim here at analyzing the fundamental properties of positive semidefinite Schrödinger operators on networks. We show that such operators correspond to perturbations of the combinatorial Laplacian through 0-order terms that can be totally negative on a proper subset of the network. In addition, we prove that these discrete operators have analogous properties to the ones of elliptic second order operators on Riemannian manifolds, namely the monotonicity, the minimum principle, the variational treatment...

 Abstract. Applying the topological transversality method of Granas and the a priori bounds technique, we prove some existence theorems for diflerential inclusions of the form x" ∈ F(t, x, x'), x ∈ ℬ, where F is a Carathéodory multifunction with convex, compact values. No growth condition will be imposed on F.

The existence and multiplicity results are shown for certain types of problems with nonlinear boundary value conditions.

In this paper I discuss quantum systems whose Hamiltonians are non-Hermitian but whose energy levels are all real and positive. Such theories are required to be symmetric under $𝒞𝒫𝒯$, but not symmetric under $𝒫$ and $𝒯$ separately. Recently, quantum mechanical systems having such properties have been investigated in detail. In this paper I extend the results to quantum field theories. Among the systems that I discuss are $-{\phi }^4$ and $i{\phi }^3$ theories. These theories all have unexpected and remarkable properties. I discuss...

The paper investigates the structure and properties of the set S of all positive solutions to the singular Dirichlet boundary value problem u″(t) + au′(t)/t − au(t)/t 2 = f(t, u(t),u′(t)), u(0) = 0, u(T) = 0. Here a ∈ (−∞,−1) and f satisfies the local Carathéodory conditions on [0,T]×D, where D = [0,∞)×ℝ. It is shown that S c = {u ∈ S: u′(T) = −c} is nonempty and compact for each c ≥ 0 and S = ∪c≥0 S c. The uniqueness of the problem is discussed. Having a special case of the problem, we introduce...

A differential equation of the form (q(t)k(u)u')' = F(t,u)u' is considered and solutions u with u(0) = 0 are studied on the halfline [0,∞). Theorems about the existence, uniqueness, boundedness and dependence of solutions on a parameter are given.

A nonlinear differential equation of the form (q(x)k(x)u')' = F(x,u,u') arising in models of infiltration of water is considered, together with the corresponding differential equation with a positive parameter λ, (q(x)k(x)u')' = λF(x,u,u'). The theorems about existence, uniqueness, boundedness of solution and its dependence on the parameter are established.