Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 54121, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/AAA/2006/54121
A symmetric solution of a multipoint boundary value problem at resonance
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock 72204-1099, AR, USA
Received 18 January 2005; Accepted 1 June 2005
Copyright © 2006 Nickolai Kosmatov. 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 apply a coincidence degree theorem of Mawhin to show the
existence of at least one symmetric solution of the nonlinear
second-order multipoint boundary value problem u″(t)=f(t,u(t),|u′(t)|),t∈(0,1), u(0)=∑i=1nμiu(ξi),u(1−t)=u(t),t∈[0,1], where 0<ξ1<ξ2<…<ξn≤1/2, ∑i=1nμi=1, f:[0,1]×ℝ2→ℝ with f(t,x,y)=f(1−t,x,y), (t,x,y)∈[0,1]×ℝ2, satisfying the Carathéodory conditions.