TY - JOUR T1 - A $(k, n − k)$ Conjugate Boundary Value Problem with Semipositone Nonlinearity AU - Yao , Qingliu JO - Communications in Mathematical Research VL - 1 SP - 51 EP - 61 PY - 2021 DA - 2021/05 SN - 31 DO - http://doi.org/10.13447/j.1674-5647.2015.01.06 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cmr/18946.html KW - higher order ordinary differential equation, boundary value problem, semipositone nonlinearity, positive solution. AB -

The existence of positive solution is proved for a $(k, n − k)$ conjugate boundary value problem in which the nonlinearity may make negative values and may be singular with respect to the time variable. The main results of Agarwal et al. (Agarwal R P, Grace S R, O'Regan D. Semipositive higher-order differential equations. Appl. Math. Letters, 2004, 14: 201–207) are extended. The basic tools are the Hammerstein integral equation and the Krasnosel'skii's cone expansion-compression technique.