In this paper, the conjugate boundary value problem -u"(t) = f(t, u(t)) for t \in? [0, 1] \ {\eta_1, \eta_2, \cdot \cdot \cdot , \eta_m-2} subject to u'(0) = u(1) = 0 and u'_+(\eta_i) - u'_(\eta_i) = \alpha_{i}u'(1) (i = 1, 2, \cdot \cdot \cdot ,m - 2), of the m-point boundary value problem -v"(t) = f(t, v(t)) subject to v(0) = 0 and v(1) = \Sigma _{i = 1}^{m - 2} \alpha _i v\left( {\eta _i } \right) is put forward and considered, where \eta_i \in (0, 1) with \eta_1 \le \eta_2 \le \cdot \cdot \cdot \le \eta_m-2, \alpha_i \in [0, 1) with 0 \le \Sigma _{i = 1}^{m - 2} \alpha_i \le 1, f \in C([0, 1] x [0,\infty), [0,\infty)). The problem is translated into Hammertein's integral equation with the use of Green's function. Then the existence of single and multiple positive solutions of the conjugate problem is shown under some conditions concerning the first eigenvalue of the relevant linear operator by means of fixed point index theory. Similar conclusions hold for some other m-point boundary value conditions.
Citation:
Shuli Wang, Jianming Zhang, "Positive Solutions of m-point Conjugate Boundary Value Problems," snpd, vol. 2, pp.334-338, Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2007), 2007