Fixed Point Theory and Applications
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 2, Pages 177-184
doi:10.1155/FPTA.2005.177
Positive solutions of some three-point boundary value problems via
fixed point index for weakly inward A-proper maps
Dipartimento di Matematica, Universitàdella Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza 87036, Italy
Received 23 November 2003; Revised 2 November 2004
Copyright © 2005 Gennaro Infante. 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
We use the theory of fixed point index for weakly inward A-proper maps to establish the existence of positive solutions of some second-order three-point boundary value problems in which the highest-order derivative occurs nonlinearly.