Solvability of singular second order m-point boundary value problems of Dirichlet type

Abstract

Let f: [0, 1] × ℝ2 → ℝ be a function satisfying the Carathéodory conditions and t (1 − t) e (t) ∈ L1(0, 1). Let ai ∈ ℝ and ξi ∈ (0, 1) for i = 1, …, m − 2 where 0 < ξ1 < ξ2 < … < ξm−2 < 1. In this paper we study the existence of C[0, 1] solutions for the m-point boundary value problem The proof of our main result is based on the Leray-Schauder continuation theorem.