High Order Boundary Value Problems : Existence, Localization and Multiplicity Results

The motto for all the results presented in this book is the lower and upper solution method. In short, this method can guarantee not only the existence of a solution for a given boundary value problem but also the location of the solution in a strip defined by the lower and the upper solutions. Therefore, the challenge of finding a solution for a boundary value problem is replaced by the search of two functions (well-ordered, in reversed order or non-ordered) satisfying adequate differential inequalities and boundary conditions. The freedom to choose such functions is at the same time its weakness: lower and upper solutions must be defined and exhibited.