Acta mathematica scientia,Series A ›› 2013, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (2): 216-223.

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Sign-changing Solutions to Third-order Two-point Boundary Value Problem

 ZHANG Qi   

  1. School of Mathematics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006
  • Received:2011-04-27 Revised:2012-09-01 Online:2013-04-25 Published:2013-04-25
  • Supported by:

    国家自然科学基金 (11071149)和山西省自然科学基金 (2010011001-1, 2012011004-2)资助

Abstract:

In this paper, we use the fixed point index theory and the Leray-Schauder degree theory to discuss the third-order boundary value problem -u'''(t)=f(t, u(t)) for all t ∈[0,1] subject to u(0)=u'(0)=u''(1)=0, where f C([0,1]×R, R). By computing hardly the eigenvalues and their algebraic multiplicities of the associated linear problem, we obtain some new existence results concerning sign-changing solutions to this problem. If f satisfies certain conditions, then the problem has at least six different nontrivial solutions: two positive solutions, two negative solutions and two sign-changing solutions. Moreover, if f(t, •) is odd for all ∈[0,1], then the problem has at least eight different nontrivial solutions, which are two positive, two negative and four sign-changing solutions.

Key words: Third-order boundary value problem, Sign-changing solutions, Fixed point index, Leray-Schauder degree

CLC Number: 

  • 34B15
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