Abstract

The paper presents general existence principles which can be used for a large class of nonlocal boundary value problems of the form (φ(x))=f1(t,x,x)+f2(t,x,x)F1x+f3(t,x,x)F2x,α(x)=0, β(x)=0, where fj satisfy local Carathéodory conditions on some [0,T]×𝒟j2, fj are either regular or have singularities in their phase variables (j=1,2,3), Fi:C1[0,T]C0[0,T](i=1,2), and α,β:C1[0,T] are continuous. The proofs are based on the Leray-Schauder degree theory and use regularization and sequential techniques. Applications of general existence principles to singular BVPs are given.