Boundary Value Problems
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 456426, 19 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/456426
Research Article

Positive Solutions of nth-Order Nonlinear Impulsive Differential Equation with Nonlocal Boundary Conditions

Meiqiang Feng,1 Xuemei Zhang,2 and Xiaozhong Yang2

1School of Science, Beijing Information Science & Technology University, Beijing 100192, China
2Department of Mathematics and Physics, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China

Received 25 March 2010; Accepted 9 May 2010

Academic Editor: Feliz Manuel Minhós

Copyright © 2011 Meiqiang Feng et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

This paper is devoted to study the existence, nonexistence, and multiplicity of positive solutions for the nth-order nonlocal boundary value problem with impulse effects. The arguments are based upon fixed point theorems in a cone. An example is worked out to demonstrate the main results.