Advances in Difference Equations (Jan 2009)

Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the Existence of Positive Solution for Singular Boundary Value Problems on Time Scales

  • Zhang Xuemei,
  • Ge Weigao,
  • Feng Meiqiang,
  • Li Xianggui

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2009, no. 1
p. 737461

Abstract

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By constructing available upper and lower solutions and combining the Schauder's fixed point theorem with maximum principle, this paper establishes sufficient and necessary conditions to guarantee the existence of as well as positive solutions for a class of singular boundary value problems on time scales. The results significantly extend and improve many known results for both the continuous case and more general time scales. We illustrate our results by one example.