Positive solutions for fourth-order singular p-Laplacian boundary value problems

Abstract

This article investigates fourth-order singular p-Laplacian boundary value problems (BVPs), and obtains the necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of positive solutions for fourth-order singular p-Laplacian BVPs on closed interval.

Keywords:

• Positive solution
• Singular BVPs
• Sufficient and necessary conditions
• p-Laplacian equations

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• AMS (MOS) Subject Classification: 34B05

Acknowledgment

The authors express their gratitude to the referee for his or her helpful comments. This research was supported by Nankai University and Tianjin University Liuhui Center of Applied Mathematics.