Preprint no. 141
Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic


Resonance and Multiplicity in Periodic Boundary Value Problems with Singularity

Irena Rachunkova, Milan Tvrdy, Ivo Vrkoc

Irena Rachunkova, Department of Math., Palacky University, 779 00 OLOMOUC, Tomkova 40, Czech Republic, e-mail: rachunko@risc.upol.cz;
Milan Tvrdy, Mathematical Institute, Acad. Sci.of the Czech Republic, 115 67 PRAHA 1, Zitna 25, Czech Republic, e-mail: tvrdy@math.cas.cz, http://www.math.cas.cz/~tvrdy/;
Ivo Vrkoc, Mathematical Institute, Acad. Sci.of the Czech Republic, 115 67 PRAHA 1, Zitna 25, Czech Republic, e-mail: vrkoc@matsrv.math.cas.cz


Summary: The paper deals with the boundary value problem $u''+k u=g(u)+e(t), u(0)=u(2\pi), u'(0)=u'(2\pi),$ where $k\in R,$ $g: (0,\infty)\to\R$ is ontinuous, $e\in\L[0,2\pi]$ and $\lim_{x\to 0+}\int_x^1 g(s) ds=\infty.$ In particular, the existence and multiplicity results are obtained using the method of lower and upper functions which are constructed as solutions of related auxiliary linear problems.

Keywords:   Second order nonlinear ordinary differential equation,  periodic problem, lower and upper functions.

AMS Subject Classification: 34B15, 34C25


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