This book presents an up-to-date account of many topics of interest in the theory of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. Topics include fixed point theory, periodic problems, lower and upper surfaces, positone and semi-positone problems, limit circle problems, finite and infinite interval problems and impulsive differential equations. In addition many important applications are presented to complement the theory.
'I warmly recommend it to everyone interested in ordinary differential equations and its applications.' Acta Sci. Math., 64 (1998)
Innehållsförteckning
1. Introduction, notation and preliminaries.- 2. Fixed point theory.- 3. Initial value problems.- 4. First order periodic problems.- 5. Existence principles for second order boundary value problems.- 6. Boundary value problems without growth restrictions.- 7. Positone boundary value problems.- 8. Semi-positone boundary value problems.- 9. Differential equations singular in the solution variable.- 10. Existence principle for singular boundary problems.- 11. Nonresonance problems in the limit circle case.- 12. Resonance problems in the limit circle case.- 13. Boundary value problems on the half line.- 14. Existence theory for ordinary differential equations on compact and noncompact intervals.- 15. Impulsive differential equations.- 16. Differential equations in abstract spaces.