Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2003 (2003), Issue 18, Pages 1047-1060
doi:10.1155/S1085337503301034

Positive solutions of some nonlocal boundary value problems

Gennaro Infante1 and J. R. L. Webb2

1Dipartimento di Matematica, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza 87036, Italy
2Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW, UK

Received 19 October 2002

Copyright © 2003 Gennaro Infante and J. R. L. Webb. 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 establish the existence of positive solutions of some m-point boundary value problems under weaker assumptions than previously employed. In particular, we do not require all the parameters occurring in the boundary conditions to be positive. Our results allow more general behaviour for the nonlinear term than being either sub- or superlinear.