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
Gennaro Infante
Dipartimento di Matematica, Universitàdella Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza 87036, Italy
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.