Abstract
In this paper, a fixed point theorem in a cone and some inequalities of the associated Green’s function are applied to obtain the existence of positive solutions of second-order three-point boundary value problem with dependence on the first-order derivative
where \(f: [0, 1] \times [0, \infty ) \times R \rightarrow [0, \infty )\) is a continuous function, \(\mu >0\), \(\eta \in (0, 1)\), \(\mu \eta <1\). The interesting point is that the nonlinear term is dependent on the convection term.
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1 Introduction
In recent years, there has been much attention focused on questions of solutions of two-point, three-point, multi-point, and integral boundary value problems for nonlinear ordinary differential equations and fractional differential equations. For example, two-point boundary value problems [3, 15, 29, 39], beam equation problems [5, 13, 16, 36], boundary value problems at resonance [2, 6, 42, 43], fractional boundary value problems [8, 24], impulsive problems [4, 38], multi-point boundary value problems [10, 14, 20, 25, 26, 32, 33, 43], integral boundary value problems [7, 9, 17, 21, 22, 28, 37], p-Laplace problems [11, 13, 24, 27, 30, 31], delay problems [23, 34, 35], solitons [12], singular problems [3], Schrödinger problem [40, 41], etc.
Krasnosel’skii’s fixed point theorem in a cone [18], the Leggett–Williams fixed point theorem [19], and five functional fixed point theorem [1] played an extremely important role in the research of the solvability of differential equation with boundary conditions.
However, most of the above works were done under the assumption that the first-order derivative is not involved explicitly in the nonlinear term [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13, 16, 17, 20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30]. Krasnosel’skii’s fixed point theorem in a cone [18] cannot concretely solve problems whose nonlinear terms involve the first-order derivative. In this paper, via a generalization of Krasnosel’skii’s fixed point theorem in a cone [5] and some inequalities of the associated Green’s function for the associated problem, the existence of positive solutions for the second-order three-point boundary value problem is studied
where \(f: [0, 1] \times [0, \infty ) \times R \rightarrow [0, \infty )\) is a continuous function, \(\mu >0\), \(\eta \in (0, 1)\), \(\mu \eta <1\).
Readers may find that the concavity is crucial in giving some important estimates and in defining an appropriate cone, and the new fixed point theorem in a cone can be used to obtain positive solutions under more flexible conditions. Two examples are given to illustrate the main results.
2 Preliminaries and lemmas
In order to give the following lemma, let X be a Banach space and P be the cone in X. Assume that \(\alpha , \beta : X \rightarrow R ^{+}\) are two continuous nonnegative functionals that satisfy
and
where \(M_{1}\), \(M_{2}\) are two positive constants.
Lemma 2.1
([5])
Let \(r_{2} > r_{1}>0\), \(L_{2} > L_{1}>0\) be constants and
two open subsets in X such that \(\theta \in \varOmega _{1} \subset \overline{ \varOmega }_{1} \subset \varOmega _{2}\). In addition, let
Assume that \(T: P \rightarrow P\) is a completely continuous operator satisfying
- \((S_{1})\) :
-
\(\alpha (Tx) \leq r_{1}\), \(x \in C_{1} \cap P\); \(\beta (Tx) \leq L_{1}\), \(x \in D_{1} \cap P \); \(\alpha (Tx) \geq r_{2}\), \(x \in C_{2} \cap P\); \(\beta (Tx) \geq L_{2}\), \(x \in D_{2} \cap P \);
or
- \((S_{2})\) :
-
\(\alpha (Tx) \geq r_{1}\), \(x \in C_{1} \cap P\); \(\beta (Tx) \geq L_{1}\), \(x \in D_{1} \cap P \); \(\alpha (Tx) \leq r_{2}\), \(x \in C_{2} \cap P\); \(\beta (Tx) \leq L_{2}\), \(x \in D_{2} \cap P \);
then T has at least one fixed point in \((\overline{\varOmega }_{2} \setminus \varOmega _{1}) \cap P\).
Lemma 2.2
Let \(0 < \mu < \frac{1}{\eta }\), \(\eta \in (0, 1)\). The Green’s function of the following boundary value problem:
is given by
Moreover, for each \(0< s<1\),
where \(\gamma = \min \{\mu \eta , \frac{\mu (1-\eta )}{(1-\mu \eta )}, \eta \}\).
Proof
The detailed formula of Green’s function \(G(t, s)\) was given in [14]. In the following proof, we focus on the existence of γ. It is clear that \(G(t, s) \ge 0\) for \(t\in [\eta , 1]\), \(s \in [0, 1]\). Consider the relation of μ and η, we divide the range of μ into two cases.
Case 1: \(0 <\mu \le 1\). With the definition of \(G(t, s)\), there are
and
Here we set \(\gamma =\min \{\mu \eta , \frac{\mu (1-\eta )}{1- \mu \eta } \}\), and then it satisfies
Case 2: \(1 < \mu <1/\eta \). With the definition of \(G(t, s)\), there are
and
Set \(\gamma =\min \{\eta , \frac{1}{\mu } \}=\eta \), then
The proof is complete. □
3 Existence results of positive solutions
In this section, by using Lemma 2.1 and Lemma 2.2, we obtain positive solutions of (1.1), (1.2).
If \(x=x(t)\) satisfies the operator equation
where \(G(t, s) \geq 0\) is Green’s function for boundary value problem (2.3), (2.4), then \(x=x(t)\) is the solution of problem (1.1), (1.2).
Let X be a Banach space in \(C^{1}[0, 1]\), with
Define a cone P by
and functionals
By (2.1), (2.2), \(\alpha , \beta : X \rightarrow R^{+}\) are two continuous nonnegative functionals such that \(\Vert x \Vert = \max \{ \alpha (x), \beta (x)\}\) and
Denote
\(T: P \rightarrow P\) is completely continuous, and the following is a simple proof of that. In fact, if \(x \in P\), there is
so that
Combining this with (2.6), we get
Moreover, from the positivity of \(G(t, s)\), there is \((Tx)(t) \geq 0\), \(0 \leq t \leq 1\), for \(x \in P\). So we can get \(T: P \rightarrow P\). Further, standard arguments yield that T is completely continuous.
Theorem 3.1
Suppose that there are four constants \(r_{2} > r_{1}>0\), \(L_{2} > L_{1}>0\) such that \(\max \{\frac{r_{1}}{M}, \frac{L_{1}}{A}\} \leq \min \{\frac{r _{2}}{M}, \frac{L_{2}}{B}\}\) and the following assumptions hold:
- \((A_{1})\) :
-
\(f(t, u, v) \geq \max \{ \frac{r_{1}}{M}, \frac{L_{1}}{A} \} \) for \((t, u, v) \in [0, 1] \times [0, r_{1}] \times [-L _{1}, L_{1}] \);
- \((A_{2})\) :
-
\(f(t, u, v) \leq \min \{ \frac{r_{2}}{M}, \frac{L_{2}}{B} \} \) for \((t, u, v) \in [0, 1] \times [0, r_{2}] \times [-L _{2}, L_{2}] \).
Then problem (1.1), (1.2) has at least one positive solution \(x(t)\) such that
Proof
Take two bounded open subsets in X
In addition, let
For \(x \in C_{1} \cap P \), by \((A_{1})\), there is
Taking into account the continuity and properties of T, we have
Thus, \((Tx)(t)\) is concave on \([0, 1]\) and
For \(x \in D_{1} \cap P \), combine \((A_{1})\) and \(f \geq 0\), there is
For \(x \in C_{2} \cap P \), by \((A_{2})\), there is
For \(x \in D_{2} \cap P \), by \((A_{2})\), there is
Now, from Lemma 2.1 we can get that there is \(x \in (\overline{\varOmega }_{2} \setminus \varOmega _{1}) \cap P \) such that \(x =Tx\). The above proof satisfies the condition of Lemma 2.1, so problem (1.1), (1.2) has at least one positive solution \(x(t)\) such that
i.e.,
The proof is complete. □
Theorem 3.2
Suppose that there are five constants \(0< r_{1} < r_{2}\), \(0< L_{1}< L _{2}\), \(0 \le h \le \min \{\eta , 1-\eta \}\) such that \(\max \{\frac{r _{1}}{N}, \frac{L_{1}}{\overline{A}}\} \leq \min \{\frac{r_{2}}{M}, \frac{L _{2}}{B}\}\) and the following assumptions hold:
- \((A_{3})\) :
-
\(f(t, u, v) \geq \frac{r_{1}}{N} \) for \((t, u, v) \in [\eta , 1] \times [\gamma r_{1}, r_{1}] \times [-L_{1}, L_{1}] \);
- \((A_{4})\) :
-
\(f(t, u, v) \geq \frac{L_{1}}{\overline{A}} \) for \((t, u, v) \in [h, 1-h] \times [0, r_{1}] \times [-L_{1}, L _{1}] \);
- \((A_{5})\) :
-
\(f(t, u, v) \leq \min \{ \frac{r_{2}}{M}, \frac{L_{2}}{B} \} \) for \((t, u, v) \in [0, 1] \times [0, r_{2}] \times [-L _{2}, L_{2}] \).
Then problem (1.1), (1.2) has at least one positive solution \(x(t)\) such that
Proof
We just need to notice the difference between the following proof and the proof of Theorem 3.1.
For \(x \in C_{1} \cap P \), by the definition of P, there is
By \((A_{3})\), there is
For \(x \in D_{1} \cap P \), by \((A_{4})\), there is
The rest of the proof is similar to that of Theorem 3.1 and is omitted. □
Remark 3.1
The conditions of our results are weaker than those of [14].
4 Examples
We present some examples to illustrate the main results.
Example 4.1
Consider the boundary value problem
where
Direct computation shows that
Choose
then \(\max \{\frac{r_{1}}{M}, \frac{L_{1}}{A}\}=\frac{2}{3} \leq \min \{\frac{r_{2}}{M}, \frac{L_{2}}{B}\}=\frac{8}{7}\), and
That is to say, all the assumptions of Theorem 3.1 are satisfied, then problem (4.1), (4.2) has at least one positive solution x such that
Example 4.2
Consider the boundary value problem
where
Direct computation shows
Choose
then \(\max \{\frac{r_{1}}{M}, \frac{L_{1}}{A}\}=\frac{9}{8} \leq \min \{\frac{r_{2}}{M}, \frac{L_{2}}{B}\}=\frac{9}{4}\), and
i.e., all the assumptions of Theorem 3.2 are satisfied, then problem (4.3), (4.4) has at least one positive solution x such that
5 Conclusion
By the use of a fixed point theorem, some existence results for a class of second-order differential equations with three-point boundary value conditions are obtained. The interesting point is that the nonlinear term is dependent on the convection term.
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Wei, Y., Bai, Z. & Sun, S. On positive solutions for some second-order three-point boundary value problems with convection term. J Inequal Appl 2019, 72 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-019-2029-3
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