Existence of positive periodic solutions to nonlinear second order differential equations

In this paper, we discuss the existence of positive periodic solutions to the nonlinear differential equation $u^{″}\left(t\right)+a\left(t\right)u\left(t\right)=f(t,u\left(t\right))\text{,}t\in R\text{,}$ where $a:R\to [0,+\infty )$ is an $\omega$-periodic continuous function with $a\left(t\right)⁄\equiv 0$, $f:R\times [0,+\infty )\to [0,+\infty )$ is continuous and $f(\cdot ,u):R\to [0,+\infty )$ is also an $\omega$-periodic function for each $u\in [0,+\infty )$. Using the fixed point index theory in a cone, we get an essential existence result because of its involving the first positive eigenvalue of the linear equation with regard to the above equation.     

Three positive radial solutions for elliptic equations in a ball

In this work we deal with a class of second-order elliptic problems of the form $-\Delta u=\lambda k\left(\left|x\right|\right)f\left(u\right)\text{ in }\Omega$, with non-homogeneous boundary condition $u=a\text{ on }\partial \Omega$ where $\Omega$ is the ball of radius $R_0$ centered at origin, $\lambda ,a$ are positive parameters, $f\in C([0,+\infty ),[0,+\infty ))$ is an increasing function and $k\in C([0,R_0],[0,+\infty ))$ is not identically zero on any subinterval of $[0,R_0]$. We obtain via a fixed point theorem of cone expansion/compression type the existence of at least three positive radial solutions.     

A Schauder and Riesz basis criterion for non-self-adjoint Schrödinger operators with periodic and antiperiodic boundary conditions

Under the assumption that $V\in L^2([0,\pi ];dx)$, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of spectral data for (non-self-adjoint) Schrödinger operators $?d^2/d{x}^2+V$ in $L^2([0,\pi ];dx)$ with periodic and antiperiodic boundary conditions to possess a Riesz basis of root vectors (i.e., eigenvectors and generalized eigenvectors spanning the range of the Riesz projection associated with the corresponding periodic and antiperiodic eigenvalues).We also discuss the case of a Schauder basis for periodic and antiperiodic Schrödinger operators $?d^2/d{x}^2+V$ in $L^p([0,\pi ];dx)$, $p\in (1,\infty )$.     

Homogeneous initial–boundary value problem of the Rosenau equation posed on a finite interval

This paper considers the IBVP of the Rosenau equation $\{\begin{array}{c}{\partial }_{t}u+{\partial }_t{\partial }_x^{4}u+{\partial }_{x}u+u{\partial }_{x}u=0\text{,}x\in (0,1),t>0\text{,}\\ u(0,x)=u_0\left(x\right)\\ u(0,t)={\partial }_x^{2}u(0,t)=0\text{,}u(1,t)={\partial }_x^{2}u(1,t)=0\text{.}\end{array}$ It is proved that this IBVP has a unique global distributional solution $u\in C([0,T];H^s(0,1))$ as initial data $u_0\in H^s(0,1)$ with $s\in [0,4]$. This is a new global well-posedness result on IBVP of the Rosenau equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions.