关键词: Right focal, Singular higher-order differential equation, Regularization, Vitali''s convergence theorem

Abstract: This article proves existence results for singular problem (-1)^n-px⁽ⁿ⁾(t)=f(t, x(t), ..., x^(n-1)(t)), for 0<t<1, x⁽ⁱ⁾(0)=0, i=1, 2, ..., p-1, x⁽ⁱ⁾(1)=0, i=p, p+1, ... , n-1. Here the positive Carathedory function f may be singular at the zero value of all its phase variables. The interesting point is that the degrees of some variables in the nonlinear term f(t, x₀, x₁, ..., x_n-1) are allowable to be greater than 1. Proofs are based on the Leray-Schauder degree theory and Vitali's convergence theorem. The emphasis in this article is that f depends on all higher-order derivatives. Examples are given to illustrate the main results of this article.

Key words: Right focal, Singular higher-order differential equation, Regularization, Vitali''s convergence theorem