Existence and multiplicity of solutions in fourth order BVPs with unbounded nonlinearities

Feliz Minhós; João Fialho

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Existence and multiplicity of solutions in fourth order BVPs with unbounded nonlinearities

Feliz Minhós^1, and
João Fialho^2,

1.
Departamento de Matemática. Universidade de Évora, Centro de Investigação em Matemática e Aplicaçoes da U.E. (CIMA-UE), Rua Romão Ramalho, 59. 7000-671 Évora
2.
College of the Bahamas, School of Mathematics, Physics and Technologies, Department of Mathematics, Oakes Field Campus, Nassau

Received: September 2012

Revised: April 2013

Published: October 2013

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In this work the authors present some existence, non-existence and location results of the problem composed of the fourth order fully nonlinear equation \begin{equation*} u^{\left( 4\right) }\left( x\right) +f( x,u\left( x\right) ,u^{\prime }\left( x\right) ,u^{\prime \prime }\left( x\right) ,u^{\prime \prime \prime }\left( x\right) ) =s\text{ }p(x) \end{equation*} for $x\in \left[ a,b\right] ,$ where $f:\left[ a,b\right] \times \mathbb{R} ^{4}\rightarrow \mathbb{R},$ $p:\left[ a,b\right] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}$ are continuous functions and $s$ a real parameter, with the boundary conditions \begin{equation*} u\left( a\right) =A,\text{ }u^{\prime }\left( a\right) =B,\text{ }u^{\prime \prime \prime }\left( a\right) =C,\text{ }u^{\prime \prime \prime }\left( b\right) =D,\text{ } \end{equation*} for $A,B,C,D\in \mathbb{R}.$ In this work they use an Ambrosetti-Prodi type approach, with some new features: the existence part is obtained in presence of nonlinearities not necessarily bounded, and in the multiplicity result it is not assumed a speed growth condition or an asymptotic condition, as it is usual in the literature for these type of higher order problems.
The arguments used apply lower and upper solutions technique and topological degree theory.
An application is made to a continuous model of the human spine, used in aircraft ejections, vehicle crash situations, and some forms of scoliosis.

Keywords:

Higher order Ambrosetti-Prodi problems,
one-sided Nagumo condition,
existence,
non-existence and multiplicity of solutions.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 34B15; Secondary: 34B18, 47H11.

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