## Existence of positive solutions for second-order boundary value problems on infinity intervals.(English)Zbl 1046.34045

The author considers the second-order boundary value problem $y^{\prime \prime} +g(t,y,y^{\prime })=0\text{ for a.e. }0<t<+\infty,\; y(0)=0,\; y \text{ bounded on }[0,\infty),$ where $$g$$ satisfies the Carathéodory conditions. Two more conditions are assumed:
(A1): For any $$H>0,$$ there exists a function $$\psi _{H}\in C([ 0,\infty ) ,[ 0,\infty ) )$$ which does not vanish identically on any subinterval of $$( 0,\infty ) ,$$ and a constant $$\gamma \in [ 0,1)$$ with $$g( t,u,v) \geq \psi _{H}( t) v^{\gamma },\;$$on $$[ 0,\infty ) \times [ 0,H] ^{2}.$$
(A2): There exist functions $$p,\;q,\;r:[0,\infty) \to [0,\infty)$$ such that $Q=\int_{0}^{\infty }q(s)\,ds<+\infty ,\;Q_{1}=\int_{0}^{\infty }sq(s)\,ds<+\infty ,\;P_{1}=\int_{0}^{\infty }sq(s)\,ds<+\infty ,$
$\;R=\int_{0}^{\infty }r(s)\,ds<+\infty ,\;R_{1}=\int_{0}^{\infty }sr(s)\,ds<+\infty ,\;$ and $$| g( t,u,v) | \leq p(t)| u| +q(t)| v| +r(t)$$ for a.e. $$t\in [0,\infty)$$ and all $$( u,v) \in [ 0,\infty ) ^{2}.$$ The main result asserts that the problem above has at least one solution provided $$P_{1}+Q<1.$$
The Leray-Schauder continuation theorem is used for establishing the result. However, the method of obtaining the needed a priori estimates is different from that of either the pionneer related works [R. P. Agarwal and D. O’Regan, Tohoku Math. J., II. Ser. 51, No. 3, 391–397 (1999; Zbl 0942.34026)] or [A. Constantin, Ann. Mat. Pura Appl., IV. Ser. 176, 379–394 (1999; Zbl 0969.34024)]. The author gives an interesting example to which the main result of his article applies but not those of Agarwal and O’Regan nor Constantin cited above.

### MSC:

 34B18 Positive solutions to nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations 34B40 Boundary value problems on infinite intervals for ordinary differential equations

### Citations:

Zbl 0942.34026; Zbl 0969.34024
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