Journal of Applied Mathematics
Volume 2013, Article ID 589483, 8 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/589483
Research Article
Exact Number of Positive Solutions for a Class of Two-Point Boundary Value Problems
School of Mathematical Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
Received 25 September 2013; Accepted 4 November 2013
Academic Editor: Yansheng Liu
Copyright © 2013 Yanmin Niu and Baoqiang Yan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper considers the existence of positive solutions of the boundary value problems and , where and is a positive parameter. Using a time-map approach, we obtain the exact number of positive solutions in different cases.