## Existence theorems for a second order $$m$$-point boundary value problem at resonance.(English)Zbl 0839.34027

The paper deals with the differential equation (1) $$x''(t) = f(t,x(t)$$, $$x'(t)) + e(t)$$, $$0 < t < 1$$, where $$f \in \text{Car} ([0,1] \times \mathbb{R}^2)$$, with the $$m$$-point boundary condition $$(m \geq 3)$$ (2) $$x'(0) = 0$$, $$x(1) = \sum^{m - 2}_{i = 1} a_i x(\xi_i)$$, where $$a_i \geq 0$$, $$\xi_i \in (0,1)$$, $$i = 1,2, \dots, m - 2$$, with $$\sum^{m - 2}_{i = 1} a_i = 1$$, $$0 < \xi_1 < \xi_2 < \cdots < \xi_{m - 2} < 1$$. The problem (1), (2) is at resonance in the sense that the associated linear homogeneous boundary value problem has nontrivial solutions. The author proves the existence of a solution to (1), (2), provided $$f$$ satisfies certain sign conditions and a linear growth condition with coefficients having sufficiently small norms. The proofs are based on Mawhin’s version of the Leray-Schauder continuation theorem. The results complete the earlier ones concerning the nonresonance case of (1), (2) proved by the author together with S. K. Ntouyas and P. Ch. Tsamatos in [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 189, No. 2, 575-584 (1995; Zbl 0819.34012)].

### MSC:

 34B10 Nonlocal and multipoint boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations 34B15 Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations 34G20 Nonlinear differential equations in abstract spaces

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