Abstract
We establish the existence of positive periodic solutions of the second-order differential equation via Schauder’s fixed point theorem, where , , f is a Caratheodory function and it is singular at . Our main results generalize some recent results by Torres (J. Differ. Equ. 232:277-284, 2007).
MSC: 34B10, 34B18.
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1 Introduction
In this paper, we are concerned with the existence of positive periodic solutions of the second-order differential equation
with , , is a Caratheodory function, and f is singular at .
The interest on this type of equations began with the paper of Lazer and Solimini [1]. They dealt with the case that and , (1.1) reduces to the special equation
which was initially studied by Lazer and Solimini [1]. They proved that for (called a strong force condition in the terminology first introduced by Gordon [2], [3]), a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a positive periodic solution of (1.2) is that the mean value of c is negative,
Moreover, if (weak force condition) they found examples of functions c with negative mean values and such that periodic solutions do not exist.
If compared with the literature available for strong singularities, see [4]–[15] and the references therein, the study of the existence of periodic solutions in the presence of a weak singularity is much more recent and the number of references is considerably smaller. The likely reason may be that with a weak singularity, the energy near the origin becomes finite, and this fact is not helpful for obtaining the a priori bound needed for a classical application of the degree theory, and also is not helpful for the fast rotation needed in recent versions of the Poincaré-Birkhoff theorem. The first existence result with a weak force condition appears in Rachunková et al.[16]. Since then, Eq. (1.1) with f having weak singularities has been studied by several authors; see Torres [17], [18], Franco and Webb [19], Chu and Li [20] and Li and Zhang [21].
Recently, Torres [18] showed how a weak singularity can play an important role if Schauder’s fixed point theorem is chosen in the proof of the existence of positive periodic solutions for (1.1). From now on, for a given function , we denote the essential supremum and infimum of ξ by and , respectively. We write if for a.e. and it is positive in a set of positive measure. Under the following assumption:
(H1) the linear equation is nonresonant and the corresponding Green’s function obeys
Torres showed the following.
Theorem A
[18], Theorem 1]
Let (H1) hold and define
Assume that
(H2) there existwithandsuch that
If, then there exists a positive T-periodic solution of (1.1).
Theorem B
[18], Theorem 2]
Let (H1) hold. Assume that
(H3) there exist two functionswithand a constantsuch that
If, then (1.1) has a positive T-periodic solution.
Theorem C
[18], Theorem 4]
Let (H1) and (H3) hold. Let
If and
then (1.1) has a positive T-periodic solution.
Obviously, (H2) and (H3) are too restrictive so that the above mentioned results are only applicable to (1.1) with nonlinearity which is bounded at origin and infinity by a function of the form . Very recently, Ma et al.[22] generalized Theorems A-C under some conditions which allow the nonlinearity f to be bounded by two different functions and .
Notice that in (H2), and in (H3). Of course the natural question is: what would happen if we allow that the functions b and may change sign?
It is worth remarking that if changes its sign, then the existence of T-periodic solutions for the equation
is still open; see Bravo and Torres [23] and Hakl and Torres [24]. Notice that (1.4) plays an important role in the study of stabilization of matter-wave breathers in Bose-Einstein condensates [25], the propagation of guided waves in optical fibers [26], and in the electromagnetic trapping of a neutral atom near a charged wire [27].
In the sequel, we denote the set of continuous T-periodic functions by . Define
which is just the unique T-periodic solution of the linear equation . For , let us define
It is the purpose of this paper to general Theorems A-C under some assumptions which allow the nonlinearity b and to change sign. The main tool is Schauder’s fixed point theorem.
2 Existence of periodic solutions
We will state and prove three results on the existence of T-periodic positive solutions of (1.1) according to the cases
Theorem 2.1
Let. Assume (H1) and
(A1) there existswith
where
and there exists such that
and
If
then there exists a positive T-periodic solution of (1.1).
Proof
A T-periodic solution of (1.1) is just a fixed point of the completely continuous map defined as
By a direct application of Schauder’s fixed point theorem, the proof is finished if we prove that ℱ maps the closed convex set defined as
into itself, where are positive constants to be fixed properly. In fact, if we define the function
let us fix which is positive by hypothesis. Given , by the nonnegative sign of G and (2.4)-(2.5),
Set
Then for , it follows from (2.6) that
and
Thus, . Clearly, , so the proof is finished. □
Remark 2.1
If in , then , and accordingly . In this case, (2.6) is satisfied for all and γ with . So, Theorem 2.1 generalizes Theorem A.
For , let us define
Theorem 2.2
Let. Assume (H1) and
(A2) there existandsuch that
(A3) h and b satisfy
where
Then there exists a positive T-periodic solution of (1.1).
Proof
We follow the same strategy and notation as in the proof of Theorem 2.1. Again, we need to fix such that . We define the functions
Recall
Some easy computations prove that it is sufficient to find such that
Taking , it is sufficient to find such that
Obviously, conditions (2.15) and (2.16) guarantee that (2.20) and (2.21) hold for . □
Theorem 2.3
Let. Assume (H1) and (A2) and
(A4) there exists
such that
Then there exists a positive T-periodic solution of (1.1).
Proof
In this case, to prove that it is sufficient to find such that
If we fix and , then and (2.22), (2.23) ensure that (2.24) and (2.25) hold. □
Remark 2.2
It is easy to check that if , then (2.23) reduces to
As in the proof of [1], Theorem 4], we may take , then (2.26) can be reduced by the condition (2.22).
Remark 2.3
As an application of Theorem 2.1, let us consider the problem
where
By [28], Lemma 2.3], the Green function of the linear problem
can be explicitly given by
Equation (2.29) yields
and
and consequently
Since for all , Theorem 2.1 guarantees that the set (2.27), (2.28) has at least one positive 1-periodic solution.
Author’s contributions
YM completed the study, carried out the results of this article and drafted the manuscript, and checked the proofs and verified the calculation. The author read and approved the final manuscript.
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Ma, Y. Existence of positive periodic solutions of second-order differential equations with weak singularities. Bound Value Probl 2014, 188 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13661-014-0188-1
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