The present paper is devoted to studying Hubbard’s pendulum equation ẍ+ 10ẋ+ sin(x) = cos(t) . By rigorous/interval methods of computation, the main assertion of Hubbard on chaos properties of the induced dynamics is lifted from the level of experimentally observed facts to the level of a theorem completely proved. A distinguished family of solutions is shown to be chaotic in the sense that on ...

By the Lefschetz fixed point theorem, if an endomorphism of a topological space is fixed-point-free, then its Lefschetz number vanishes. This necessary condition is not usually sufficient, however; for that we need a refinement of the Lefschetz number called the Reidemeister trace. Abstractly, the Lefschetz number is a trace in a symmetric monoidal category, while the Reidemeister trace is a tr...

This paper is concerned with the existence, nonexistence, uniqueness, and multiplicity of positive solutions for a class of eigenvalue problems of nonlinear fractional differential equations with a nonlinear integral term and a disturbance parameter in the boundary conditions. By using fixed point index theory we give the critical curve of eigenvalue λ and disturbance parameterμ that divides th...

Received: 09 Mar. 2012; Revised 23 Jul. 2012; Accepted 02 Sep. 2012 Received: May 8, 2012; Revised June 1, 2012; Accepted June 5, 2012 Abstract: In this paper, we’ll give some new conclusion of fixed point related to the multi-valued map, the calculation of fixed point index, and the solutions to nonlinear equations by using VIM. We apply the effective modification of its variation iteration me...

This paper presents conditions for the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for a boundary value problem of a nonlinear fractional differential equation. We show that it has at least one or two positive solutions. The main tool is Krasnosel’skii fixed point theorem on cone and fixed point index theory.

In this paper, we shall establish sufficient conditions for the controllability on semi-infinite intervals for first and second order functional differential inclusions in Banach spaces. We shall rely on a fixed point theorem due to Ma, which is an extension on locally convex topological spaces, of Schaefer’s theorem. Moreover, by using the fixed point index arguments the implicit case is treated.

Recommended by Alberto Cabada Criteria are established for existence of least one or three positive solutions for boundary value problems of second-order functional dynamic equations on time scales. By this purpose, we use a fixed-point index theorem in cones and Leggett-Williams fixed-point theorem.

We apply topological methods to the study of the set of harmonic solutions of periodically perturbed autonomous ordinary differential equations on differentiable manifolds, allowing the perturbing term to contain a fixed delay. In the crucial step, in order to cope with the delay, we define a suitable (infinite dimensional) notion of Poincaré T -translation operator and prove a formula that, in...

By constructing an available integral operator and combining fixed point index theory with properties of Green’s function, this paper shows the existence of multiple positive solutions for a class of impulsive singular boundary value problems with integral boundary conditions. Our results extend some recent work in the literature on boundary value problems of ordinary differential equations. We...

The existence of nonzero solutions for a class of generalized variational inequalities is studied by fixed point index approach for multivalued mappings in finite dimensional spaces and reflexive Banach spaces. Some new existence theorems of nonzero solutions for this class of generalized variational inequalities are established.