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Nodal solutions of nonlocal boundary value problems. (English) Zbl 1193.34032

The authors study the nonlocal boundary value problem \[ -(p(t)y')'+q(t)y=w(t)f(y), \]
\[ \cos \alpha y(a)-\sin \alpha (py')(a)=0,\quad (py')(b)-\int^b_a (py')(s)d\xi(s), \]
where \(a<b\) and the integral is the Riemann-Stieltjes integral with respect to \(\xi(s)\) with \(\xi(s)\) a function of bounded variation. By relating it to the eigenvalues of a linear Sturm-Liouville problem with a two-point separated boundary condition, they obtain results on the existence and nonexistence of nodal solutions of this problem.
Reviewer: Ruyun Ma (Lanzhou)

MSC:

34B10 Nonlocal and multipoint boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations
34B15 Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations