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TRIPLE SOLUTIONS FOR THREE-ORDER PERIODIC BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS WITH SIGN CHANGING NONLINEARITY

  • Tan, Huixuan;Feng, Hanying;Feng, Xingfang;Du, Yatao
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.32 no.1_2
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    • pp.75-82
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we consider the periodic boundary value problem with sign changing nonlinearity $$u^{{\prime}{\prime}{\prime}}+{\rho}^3u=f(t,u),\;t{\in}[0,2{\pi}]$$, subject to the boundary value conditions: $$u^{(i)}(0)=u^{(i)}(2{\pi}),\;i=0,1,2$$, where ${\rho}{\in}(o,{\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}})$ is a positive constant and f(t, u) is a continuous function. Using Leggett-Williams fixed point theorem, we provide sufficient conditions for the existence of at least three positive solutions to the above boundary value problem. The interesting point is the nonlinear term f may change sign.