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Existence of concave symmetric positive solutions for a three-point boundary value problems

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the existence of triple concave symmetric positive solutions for the nonlinear boundary value problems with integral boundary conditions. The proof is based upon the Avery and Peterson fixed point theorem. An example which supports our theoretical result is also indicated.

MSC:34B10, 39B18, 39A10.

1 Introduction

Consider the boundary value problem (BVP)

{ u ( x ) + f ( x , u ( x ) , u ( x ) ) = 0 , x ( 0 , 1 ) , u ( 0 ) = u ( 1 ) = α 0 η u ( s ) d s ,
(1.1)

where f:(0,1)×[0,)×R[0,) is continuous and α,η(0,1). A function uC[0,1] is said to be symmetric on [0,1] if

u(x)=u(1x),x[0,1].

By a symmetric positive solution of BVP (1.1) we mean a symmetric function u C 2 [0,1] such that u(x)0 for x(0,1) and u(x) satisfies BVP (1.1).

Recently, many authors have focused on the existence of symmetric positive solutions for ordinary differential equation boundary value problems; for example, see [15] and the references therein. However, multi-point boundary value problems included the most recent works [14, 69] and boundary value problems with integral boundary conditions for ordinary differential equations have been studied by many authors; one may refer to [5, 1012]. Motivated by the works mentioned above, we aim to investigate existence results for concave symmetric positive solutions of BVP (1.1) by applying the fixed point theorem of Avery and Peterson.

The organization of this paper is as follows. Section 2 of this paper contains some preliminary lemmas. In Section 3, by applying the Avery and Peterson fixed point theorem, we obtain concave symmetric positive solutions for BVP (1.1). In Section 4, an example will be presented to illustrate the applicability of our result.

Throughout this paper, we always assume that the following assumption is satisfied:

(H1) fC((0,1)×[0,+)×R,[0,+)), f(x,u,v)=f(1x,u,v) for x(0, 1 2 ], and f(x,u,v)0 for all (x,u,v)(0,1)×[0,+)×R.

2 Preliminaries

In this section, we present several lemmas that will be used in the proof of our result.

Lemma 2.1 Let hC[0,1] and αη1, then the BVP

u (x)+h(x)=0,0<x<1,
(2.1)
u(0)=u(1)=α 0 η u(s)ds,
(2.2)

has a solution

u(x)= 0 1 ( H ( s ) + G ( x , s ) ) h(s)ds,
(2.3)

where

V(s)= { ( η s ) 2 , s η , 0 , η s , H(s)= α η 2 2 ( 1 α η ) (1s) α 2 ( 1 α η ) V(s),
(2.4)
G(x,s)= { s ( 1 x ) , 0 s x 1 , x ( 1 s ) , 0 x s 1 .
(2.5)

Proof Suppose that u C 2 [0,1] is a solution of problem (2.1) and (2.2). Then we have

u (x)=h(x).

For x[0,1], by integration from 0 to 1, we have

u (x)= u (0) 0 x h(s)ds.

For x[0,1], by integration again from 0 to 1, we have

u(x)= u (0)x 0 x ( 0 τ h ( s ) d s ) dτ.

That is,

u(x)=u(0)+ u (0)x 0 x (xs)h(s)ds,
(2.6)

therefore,

u(1)=u(0)+ u (0) 0 1 (1s)h(s)ds.

From condition (2.2), we have

u (0)= 0 1 (1s)h(s)ds.

Integrating (2.6) from 0 to η, where η(0,1), we have

0 η u ( s ) d s = u ( 0 ) η + u ( 0 ) η 2 2 0 η ( 0 τ ( τ s ) h ( s ) d s ) d τ = u ( 0 ) η + u ( 0 ) η 2 2 1 2 0 η ( η s ) 2 h ( s ) d s ,

and from u(0)=α 0 η u(s)ds, we have

u(0)= α η 2 2 ( 1 α η ) u (0) α 2 ( 1 α η ) 0 η ( η s ) 2 h(s)ds,

therefore, (2.1) and (2.2) have a unique solution

u ( x ) = α η 2 2 ( 1 α η ) 0 1 ( 1 s ) h ( s ) d s α 2 ( 1 α η ) 0 η ( η s ) 2 h ( s ) d s + x 0 1 ( 1 s ) h ( s ) d s 0 x ( x s ) h ( s ) d s .

From (2.4) and (2.5), we obtain

u(x)= 0 1 ( H ( s ) + G ( x , s ) ) h(s)ds.

The proof is complete. □

The functions H and G have the following properties.

Lemma 2.2 If α,η(0,1), then we have

H(s)0for s[0,1].

Proof From the definition of H(s), s(0,1), and α,η(0,1), we have H(s)0. □

Lemma 2.3 G(1x,1s)=G(x,s), 0G(x,s)G(s,s) for x,s[0,1].

Proof From the definition of G(x,s), we get G(1x,1s)=G(x,s) and 0G(x,s)G(s,s) for x,s[0,1]. □

Lemma 2.4 If f(x,u(x), u (x))C((0,1)×[0,+)×R,[0,+)) and we let α,η(0,1), then the unique solution u of BVP (1.1) satisfies u(x)0 for x[0,1].

Proof From the definition of u(x), Lemma 2.2, Lemma 2.3, and f(x,u(x), u (x))C((0,1)×[0,+)×R,[0,+)), we have u(x)0. □

Let E= C 2 [0,1]. Then E is Banach space with the norm u=max{ u , u }, where u = max x [ 0 , 1 ] |u(x)|.

We define the cone PE by

P= { u E : u ( x ) 0  is concave and  u ( x ) = u ( 1 x ) , x [ 0 , 1 ] } .

Define the operator T:PE as follows:

(Tu)(x)= 0 1 ( H ( s ) + G ( x , s ) ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) dsfor x[0,1],
(2.7)

where G(x,s) and H(s) are given by (2.4) and (2.5). Clearly, u is the solution of BVP (1.1) if and only if u is a fixed point of the operator T.

Lemma 2.5 Let 0<α<1 and 0<η<1. For uP, there exists a real number M>0 such that

max 0 x 1 |u(x)|M max 0 x 1 | u (x)|,

where M= 1 2 ( 1 α η ) .

Proof For any uP, we have

max 0 x 1 |u(x)|=u ( 1 2 ) , max 0 x 1 | u (x)|= u (0),

the concavity of u implies that

u (0) u ( 1 2 ) u ( 0 ) 1 2 ,

then

u ( 1 2 ) u ( 0 ) 2 +u(0).
(2.8)

Now we divide the proof into two cases.

Case 1. If 0<η 1 2 , then the concavity of u implies that

0 η u(s)dsηu(η),

where ηu(η) is the area of rectangle, then

u(0)αηu(η)αηu ( 1 2 ) .

So

u(0)αηu ( 1 2 ) ,
(2.9)

then from (2.8) and (2.9), we have

u ( 1 2 ) 1 2 ( 1 α η ) u (0),

that is,

max 0 x 1 |u(x)| 1 2 ( 1 α η ) max 0 x 1 | u (x)|.

Case 2. If 1 2 η<1, then the concavity and symmetry of u imply that

0 η u(s)ds 0 1 u(s)ds=2 0 1 2 u(s)ds2u ( 1 2 ) 1 2 .

So

u(0)αu ( 1 2 ) ,
(2.10)

then from (2.8) and (2.10), we have

u ( 1 2 ) 1 2 ( 1 α ) u (0),

that is,

max 0 x 1 |u(x)| 1 2 ( 1 α ) max 0 x 1 | u (x)|,

where M=min{ 1 2 ( 1 α η ) , 1 2 ( 1 α ) }= 1 2 ( 1 α η ) , these equations complete the proof. □

Lemma 2.6 Let 0<α<1 and 0<η<1. For uP, there exists a real number 0<N<1 such that

min 0 x 1 |u(x)|N u ,

where N=max{ α η 2 α η 2 α η + 1 , α 4 α }.

Proof For any uP, we have

min 0 x 1 |u(x)|=u(0)=u(1), u = max 0 x 1 |u(x)|=u ( 1 2 ) ,

and because the graph of u is concave, we have

0 η u(s)ds η 2 ( u ( η ) + u ( 0 ) ) ,

then

u(η) α η 2 α η u(0).
(2.11)

Now we divide the proof into two cases.

Case 1. If 0<η 1 2 , then using concavity and positivity of u, we get

u ( η ) u ( 0 ) η u ( 1 2 ) u ( 0 ) 1 2 .

So

2 η 1 η u(0)2u ( 1 2 ) 1 η u(η),
(2.12)

then from (2.11) and (2.12), we have

u(0) α η 2 α η 2 α η + 1 u ( 1 2 ) ,

that is,

min 0 x 1 |u(x)| α η 2 α η 2 α η + 1 u .

Case 2. If 1 2 η<1, then using concavity and positivity of u, we get

0 η u(s)ds ( u ( 1 2 ) u ( 0 ) ) 1 2 2 + u ( 0 ) 2 .

So

u(0) α 4 α u ( 1 2 ) ,

that is,

min 0 x 1 |u(x)| α 4 α u ,

where N=max{ α η 2 α η 2 α η + 1 , α 4 α }, and for α,η(0,1), one can easily see that N(0,1). These equations complete the proof. □

3 Existence of triple concave symmetric positive solutions for BVP (1.1)

In this section, we will apply the Avery-Peterson fixed point theorem to establish the existence of at least three concave symmetric positive solutions of BVP (1.1).

Let α, γ, θ, ψ be maps on P with α a nonnegative continuous concave functional; γ, θ nonnegative continuous convex functionals, and ψ a nonnegative continuous functional. Then for positive numbers a, b, c, d we define the following subsets of P:

P ( γ , d ) = { u P γ ( u ) < d } , P ( α , γ , b , d ) = { u P ( γ , d ) ¯ α ( u ) b } , P ( α , θ , γ , b , c , d ) = { u P ( γ , d ) ¯ α ( u ) b , θ ( u ) c } , R ( ψ , γ , a , d ) = { u P ( γ , d ) ¯ ψ ( u ) a } .

Now we state the Avery-Peterson fixed point theorem.

Theorem 3.1 ([2, 3, 9, 13])

Let P be cone in Banach space E. Let γ and θ be nonnegative continuous convex functionals on P, α be a nonnegative continuous concave functional on P, and ψ be a nonnegative continuous functional on P leading to

ψ(λu)λψ(u)for all 0λ1

and

α(u)ψ(u),uMγ(u)for all u P ( γ , d ) ¯  with M,d positive numbers.

Suppose T:PP is completely continuous and there exist positive numbers a, b, c with a<b such that

( S 1 ) : { u P ( α , θ , γ , b , c , d ) α ( u ) > b } and ( S 1 ) : α ( T u ) > b for  u P ( α , θ , γ , b , c , d ) ; ( S 2 ) : α ( T u ) > b for  u P ( α , γ , b , d )  with  θ ( T u ) > c ; ( S 3 ) : 0 R ( ψ , γ , a , d ) and ψ ( T u ) < a for  u R ( ψ , γ , a , d )  with  ψ ( u ) = a .

Then T has at least three fixed points u 1 , u 2 , u 3 P ( γ , d ) ¯ such that

γ ( u i ) d for  i = 1 , 2 , 3 ; ψ ( u 1 ) < a ; ψ ( u 2 ) > a with  α ( u 2 ) < b ; α ( u 3 ) > b .

Lemma 3.1 Assume that (H1) is satisfied and let αη(0,1). Then the operator T is completely continuous.

Proof For any uP, from the expression of Tu, we know

{ ( T u ) ( x ) + f ( x , u ( x ) , u ( x ) ) = 0 , x ( 0 , 1 ) , ( T u ) ( 0 ) = ( T u ) ( 1 ) = α 0 η ( T u ) ( s ) d s .

Clearly, Tu is concave. From the definition of Tu, Lemma 2.2, and Lemma 2.3 we see that Tu is nonnegative on [0,1]. We now show that Tu is symmetric about 1 2 . From Lemma 2.3 and (H1), for x[0,1], we have

( T u ) ( 1 x ) = 0 1 ( H ( s ) + G ( 1 x , s ) ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s = 0 1 H ( s ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s + 0 1 G ( 1 x , s ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s = 0 1 H ( s ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s 1 0 G ( 1 x , 1 s ) f ( 1 s , u ( 1 s ) , u ( 1 s ) ) d s = 0 1 H ( s ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s + 0 1 G ( x , s ) f ( 1 s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s = 0 1 H ( s ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s + 0 1 G ( x , s ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s = 0 1 ( H ( s ) + G ( x , s ) ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s = ( T u ) ( x ) ;

therefore, TPP.

The continuity of T with respect to u(x) C 2 [0,1] is clear. We now show that T is compact. Suppose that DP is a bounded set. Then there exists r such that

D= { u P u r } .

For any uD, we have

0f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) max { f ( s , u , u ) s [ 0 , 1 ] , u [ 0 , r ] , u [ r , r ] } =:M.

So, we have from (2.7)

( T u ) ( x ) = max x [ 0 , 1 ] | 0 1 ( H ( s ) + G ( x , s ) ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s | M 0 1 H ( s ) d s + M max x [ 0 , 1 ] 0 1 G ( x , s ) d s = : L

and

( T u ) ( x ) = max x [ 0 , 1 ] | 0 1 ( 1 s ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s 0 x f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s | M 2 + M .

These equations imply that the operator T is uniformly bounded. Now we show that Tu is equi-continuous.

We separate these three conditions:

Case (i). 0 x 1 x 2 1 2 ;

Case (ii). 1 2 x 1 x 2 1;

Case (iii). 0 x 1 1 2 x 2 1.

We solely need to deal with Case (i) since the proofs of the other two are analogous. For 0 x 1 x 2 1 2 , we have

| ( T u ) ( x 2 ) ( T u ) ( x 1 ) | = | 0 1 ( G ( x 2 , s ) G ( x 1 , s ) ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s | { 0 1 | ( x 2 x 1 ) ( 1 s ) | f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s , 0 x 1 x 2 s 1 2 , 0 1 | s ( x 1 x 2 ) | f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s , 0 s x 1 x 2 1 2 , 0 1 | s ( 1 x 2 ) x 1 ( 1 s ) | f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s , 0 x 1 s x 2 1 2 { M 2 | x 2 x 1 | , M 2 | x 2 x 1 | , 3 M 2 | x 2 x 1 | .

In addition

| ( T u ) ( x 2 ) ( T u ) ( x 1 )|=| x 2 x 1 f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) ds|M| x 2 x 1 |.

So, we see that Tu is equi-continuous. By applying the Arzela-Ascoli theorem, we can guarantee that T(D) is relatively compact, which means T is compact. Then we find that T is completely continuous. This completes the proof. □

For convenience, we denote

L = 0 1 ( H ( s ) + G ( 1 2 , s ) ) d s , N = max { α η 2 α η 2 α η + 1 , α 4 α } , M = 1 2 ( 1 α η ) , δ = 0 1 H ( s ) d s .

Theorem 3.2 Suppose (H1) holds and let α,η(0,1). Moreover, there exist nonnegative numbers 0<a<b2dδ such that

( B 1 ) f ( x , u , v ) 2 d for  ( x , u , v ) [ 0 , 1 ] × [ 0 , M d ] × [ d , d ] ; ( B 2 ) f ( x , u , v ) > b δ for  ( x , u , v ) [ 0 , 1 ] × [ b , b N ] × [ d , d ] ; ( B 3 ) f ( x , u , v ) < a L for  ( x , u , v ) [ 0 , 1 ] × [ 0 , a ] × [ d , d ] ,

then BVP (1.1) has at least three concave symmetric positive solutions u 1 , u 2 , u 3 such that

max 0 x 1 | u i ( x ) | d for  i = 1 , 2 , 3 ; max 0 x 1 | u 1 ( x ) | < a , max 0 x 1 | u 2 ( x ) | > a with  min 0 x 1 | u 2 ( x ) | < b , min 0 x 1 | u 3 ( x ) | > b .

Proof BVP (1.1) has a solution u=u(x) if and only if u solves the operator equation u=T(u). So we need to verify that operator T satisfies the Avery-Peterson fixed point theorem, which will prove the existence of at least three fixed points of T.

Complete continuity of T is clear from Lemma 3.1. Define the nonnegative functionals α, θ, γ, and ψ by

γ(u)= max 0 x 1 | u (x)|,ψ(u)=θ(u)= max 0 x 1 |u(x)|,α(u)= min 0 x 1 |u(x)|.

Then in the cone P, θ and γ are convex as α is concave. It is well known that ψ(λu)λψ(u) for all 0λ1 and α(u)ψ(u). Moreover, from Lemma 2.5, uMγ(u). Now, we will prove the main theorem in four steps.

Step 1. We will show that T: P ( γ , d ) ¯ P ( γ , d ) ¯ .

If u P ( γ , d ) ¯ , then γ(u)= max 0 x 1 | u (x)|d. Lemma 2.5 yields max 0 x 1 |u(x)|Md, then the condition (B1) implies that f(x,u,v)2d. On the other hand, for any uP, there is T(u)P, then T(u) is concave, symmetric, and positive on [0,1] and max 0 x 1 | ( T u ) (x)|=| ( T u ) (0)|, and we have

γ ( T u ) = max 0 x 1 | ( T u ) ( x ) | = | ( T u ) ( 0 ) | = 0 1 ( 1 s ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s 2 d 1 2 = d .

Then (Tu) P ( γ , d ) ¯ . Therefore T: P ( γ , d ) ¯ P ( γ , d ) ¯ .

Step 2. To check if condition (S1) of Theorem 3.1 is satisfied, we choose u(x)= b N . Clearly,

α ( u ) = min 0 x 1 | u ( x ) | = u ( 0 ) = b N > b , θ ( u ) = max 0 x 1 | u ( x ) | = u ( 1 2 ) = b N , γ ( u ) = max 0 x 1 | u ( x ) | = | u ( 0 ) | = 0 d .

Thus, uP(α,θ,γ,b, b N ,d) and {uP(α,θ,γ,b, b N ,d)α(u)>b}.

If uP(α,θ,γ,b, b N ,d), then we have bu(x) b N , d u (x)d. From condition (B2), we have f(x,u(x), u (x))> b δ , and it follows that

α ( T ( u ) ) = min 0 x 1 | T u ( x ) | = ( T u ) ( 0 ) = 0 1 ( H ( s ) + G ( 0 , s ) ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s > b δ 0 1 H ( s ) d s = b .

This shows that condition (S1) of Theorem 3.1 is satisfied.

Step 3. We will show that condition (S2) of Theorem 3.1 is satisfied. Take uP(α,γ,b,d) with θ(Tu)> b N . Then from Lemma 2.6, we have

α(Tu)= min 0 x 1 |Tu(x)|N max 0 x 1 |Tu(x)|=Nθ(Tu)>N b N =b,

so condition (S2) holds.

Step 4. We will show that condition (S3) of Theorem 3.1 is also satisfied. Obviously, ψ(0)=0<a, and we have 0R(ψ,γ,a,d). Assume that uR(ψ,γ,a,d) with ψ(u)=a. Then, from condition (B3), we have

ψ ( T u ) = max 0 x 1 | T u ( x ) | = ( T u ) ( 1 2 ) = 0 1 ( H ( s ) + G ( 1 2 , s ) ) f ( s , u ( s ) , u ( s ) ) d s < a L 0 1 ( H ( s ) + G ( 1 2 , s ) ) d s = a .

It proves that condition (S3) holds. All conditions of Theorem 3.1 are satisfied and we assert that BVP (1.1) has at least three concave symmetric positive solutions u 1 , u 2 , u 3 P such that

max 0 x 1 | u i ( x ) | d for  i = 1 , 2 , 3 ; max 0 x 1 | u 1 ( x ) | < a , max 0 x 1 | u 2 ( x ) | > a with  min 0 x 1 | u 2 ( x ) | < b , min 0 x 1 | u 3 ( x ) | > b .

Therefore, our proof is complete. □

4 Example

Example 4.1 We consider the following three-point second-order BVP with integral boundary conditions:

{ u ( x ) + f ( x , u ( x ) , u ( x ) ) = 0 , x ( 0 , 1 ) , u ( 0 ) = u ( 1 ) = 1 8 0 1 4 u ( s ) d s ,
(4.1)

where

f ( x , u , u ) = { x ( 1 x ) + u 11 + | u | 1 , 025 , 0 u 2 , x ( 1 x ) + 2 , 048 + | u | 1 , 025 , u 2 .

We can see from (4.1) that α= 1 8 , η= 1 4 . Then M= 16 31 , N= 1 31 , L= 377 2 , 976 , δ= 5 2 , 976 . We choose a=1, b=2, d=1,025. Clearly 0<a<b2dδ. Moreover, f satisfies (H1).

( B 1 ) f ( x , u , v ) 1 4 + 2 , 048 + 1 , 025 1 , 025 < 2 d = 2 , 050 ( B 1 ) for  ( x , u , v ) [ 0 , 1 ] × [ 0 , 16 , 400 31 ] × [ 1 , 025 , 1 , 025 ] ; ( B 2 ) f ( x , u , v ) > 2 , 048 > b δ = 1 , 190.4 for  ( x , u , v ) [ 0 , 1 ] × [ 2 , 62 ] × [ 1 , 025 , 1 , 025 ] ; ( B 3 ) f ( x , u , v ) < 1 4 + 1 + 1 , 025 1 , 025 < a L 7.9 ( B 3 ) for  ( x , u , v ) [ 0 , 1 ] × [ 0 , 1 ] × [ 1 , 025 , 1 , 025 ] .

So, by Theorem 3.2 we find that BVP (4.1) has at least three concave symmetric positive solutions u 1 , u 2 , u 3 such that

max 0 x 1 | u i ( x ) | 1 , 025 for  i = 1 , 2 , 3 ; max 0 x 1 | u 1 ( x ) | < 1 , max 0 x 1 | u 2 ( x ) | > 1 with  min 0 x 1 | u 2 ( x ) | < 2 , min 0 x 1 | u 3 ( x ) | > 2 .

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