Study of Solutions for a Fifth-order Three-Point Boundary Value Problem

https://doi.org/10.65281/641590

Submission date : 02.12.2023 ,

Acceptanc Date: 19.03.2024,

Publication Date : 15 .01.2025

Lilia ZENKOUFI

Department of Mathematics. Faculty of Sciences

University 8 may 1945 Guelma, Algeria

Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées et de Modélisation “LMAM”

e-mail : zenkoufi@yahoo.fr

Abstract: In this paper, we apply Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem and the well-known Guo-Krasnoselskii fixed point theorem in cone to prove the existence and the positivity of nontrivial solutions for fifth-order boundary value problems. Two examples are given to illustrate our results.

Keywords: Boundary value problem, differential equation, existence of solution, positive solution, fixed point theorem.

Mathematics Subject Classifications: 34B10, 34B15.

Introduction

  Multipoint boundary value problem (BVP) plays an important part in various fields, such as fluid mechanics, physics, engineering, and many other branches of applied mathematics. Recently certain three point boundary value problems for nonlinear ordinary differential equations have been studied by many authors. The literature concerning these problems is extensive and application of theorems of functional analysis has attracted more interest see .

In 2003, Chen Yang  considered a nonlinear third-order three-point boundary value problem and gave the existence and uniqueness of solutions by constructing Green’s function and using its properties

In 2018, N. Bouteraa and S. Benaicha  by imposing certain conditions on the nonlinear term f, they constructed a lower and a higher solution to prove that a solution exists for a type of nonlinear third-order nonlocal boundary value problem.

The aim of this work is to study the existence and the positivity of solutions for the following nonlinear fifth-order boundary value problem.

Motivated by several results, we consider the three-point boundary value problem for fifth-order differential equations (1.1). By applying Krasnosel’skii’s fixed-point theorem, we discuss the existence solutions, to demonstrate the existence results, we transformed the posed problem into a sum of a contraction and a compact operator. To prove the positivity results : we expressed the Green function associated to the posed problem, then we apply the well-known Guo-Krasnoselskii fixed point theorem in cone. We ended this work with two examples illustrating the obtain results.

and

then,

which implies the Lemma 01.

Existence results

We state a known result due to Krasnoselskii.

 Theorem 02 :   Let  be a closed convex and nonempty subset of a Banach space . Let  and  be two operators such that

   whenever  

   is compact and continuous.

   is a contraction.

Then there exists  such that  

 Theorem03 : Assume that  and there exists a nonnegative function   such that

    (3.1)

Then problem  has at least one solution on  

Hence, we get

Positive results

To establish the existence of positive solutions to the posed problem, we employ the following Guo-Krasnosel’skii fixed point theorem.

 Theorem 04 :   Let  be a Banach space, and let  be a cone. Assume  are open subsets of  with   and let

be a completely continuous operator. In addition suppose either

holds. Then  has a fixed point in  

 Lemma 05:  The solution of boundary value problem  can be expressed as

  (4.1)

   (4.2)

 Proof :  We have

So,

And, that is equivalent to

The proof is complete.

 Lemma 06:   is strictly increasing in the first variable, and satisfies the following properties

      and   .

 Definition 07:  We define an operator  by

                                                               (4.3)

 Lemma 08:  An operator is called completely continuous if it is continuous and maps bounded sets into precompact sets.

 Lemma 09:  Let  the unique solution  of the boundary value problem   is nonnegative and satisfies

 Definition 10: We define the cone  by

 Lemma 11:  The operator defined in  is completely continuous and satisfies  

The main result of this section is the following

 Theorem 12:  Let  and  hold,  and assume that

Then problem  has at least one positive solution in the case

 Proof :  We shall prove that problem   has at least one positive solution in both cases, superlinear and sublinear, for this we use 04. We prove the superlinear case. Since  then for any    such that   for  . Let  be an open set in  defined by

then, for any  it yields

Therefore

If we choose  then it yields

Now from  then   such that  for . Let

 Denote by  the open set

For any  have

alors,  Let  then

And choosing  we get

By the first part of 04,  has at least one fixed point in  such that,  This completes the superlinear case of 12.  

Case II Now, we assume that  and  (sublinear case). Proceding as above and by the second part of 04, we prove the sublinear case. This achieves the proof of 12.

Example

In order to illustrate our results, we give the following examples

 Example 01:  Consider the following boundary value problem

We have .

And,

Therefore, by 03, problem  has at least one solution in  with   

 Example 02:  Consider the following boundary value problem

By 12  the boundary value problem  has at least one positive solution.

Conclusion

The objective of this work is to study the existence and the positivity of solutions for the boundary value problems generated by a fifth-order differential equations by applying Krasnosel’skii fixed point theorem and the well-known Guo-Krasnoselskii fixed point theorem in cone, where the boundary conditions are imposed in three-points of the domain. We ended this work with two examples illustrating the obtain results.

Author:

Lilia ZENKOUFI

Department of Mathematics. Faculty of Sciences

University 8 may 1945 Guelma, Algeria

Laboratory of Applied Mathematics and Modeling “LAMM”

E-mail:  zenkoufi@yahoo.fr

Declarations:

Competing interests

The author declares no conflicts of interest.

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