POSITIVE SOLUTIONS FOR A CLASS OF SINGULAR TWO POINT BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS

Volume 2, Issue 2, pp 126-135 http://dx.doi.org/10.22436/jnsa.002.02.07

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RAHMAT ALI KHAN - Centre for Advanced Mathematics and Physics, National University of Sciences and Technology, Campus of College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Peshawar Road, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. NASEER AHMAD ASIF - Centre for Advanced Mathematics and Physics, National University of Sciences and Technology, Campus of College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Peshawar Road, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Abstract

Existence of positive solution for a class of singular boundary value problems of the type \[−x''(t) = f(t, x(t), x'(t)),\quad t \in (0, 1)\] \[x(0) = 0, x(1) = 0,\] is established. The nonlinearity \(f \in C((0, 1) \times (0,\infty) \times (−\infty,\infty), (−\infty,\infty))\) is allowed to change sign and is singular at \(t = 0, t = 1\) and/or \(x = 0\). An example is included to show the applicability of our result.

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Keywords

• Positive solutions
• Singular differential equations
• Dirichlet boundary conditions.

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•  34A45
•  34B15

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