<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AM</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Applied Mathematics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2152-7385</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/am.2012.38130</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AM-21481</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  General Periodic Boundary Value Problem for Systems
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>ohammed</surname><given-names>Elnagi</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sub>1</sub></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><label>1</label><addr-line>Department of Mathematics, Faulty of Educations, Khartoum University, Omdurman, Sudan</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>mohdnajy@hotmail.com</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>28</day><month>08</month><year>2012</year></pub-date><volume>03</volume><issue>08</issue><fpage>882</fpage><lpage>887</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>May</day>	<month>20,</month>	<year>2012</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>July</day>	<month>2,</month>	<year>2012</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>July</day>	<month>9,</month>	<year>2012</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  The paper deals with the existence of nonzero periodic solution of systems, where k∈(0, π/T), α, β are n&#215;n real nonsingular matrices, μ=(μ
  <sub>1</sub>…μ
  <sub>n</sub>), f(t, u)=(f
  <sub>1</sub>(t, u),…,f
  <sub>n</sub>(t, u))∈C([0, T]&#215;□
  <sup>n</sup>
  <sub>+</sub>,□
  <sub>+</sub>) is periodic of period T in the t variable are continuous and nonnegative functions. We determine the Green’s function and prove that the existence of nonzero periodic positive solutions if one of . In addition, if all i=（1…n）where λ
  <sub>1</sub> is the principle eigenvalues of the corresponding linear systems. The proof based on the fixed point index theorem in cones. Application of our result is given to such systems with specific nonlinearities.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Systems; Principle Eigenvalues; Positive Solutions; Green’s Function; Fixed Point Index Theorem in Cones</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>In this paper, we study the existence of nonzero positive periodic solution of systems</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151553"><label>(1.1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\acb43d4a-f74e-4e79-a1f8-54e3f8aafee0.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<img src="9-7400856\7c489757-a09f-48ae-9923-d203de114e9b.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\7857cf67-0dd4-444f-a8f1-5a8ea8625443.jpg" />are <img src="9-7400856\d9671f7d-62a9-4c54-865d-aa78c90f7848.jpg" /> real nonsingular matrices, <img src="9-7400856\2a7a5369-c3a5-4295-b1bd-46c6fb048a9f.jpg" />, and</p><p><img src="9-7400856\96970b4f-82af-4561-b11e-794a4bbbc6f7.jpg" /></p><p>are periodic of period <img src="9-7400856\de473d41-5ca4-4660-a627-f84c3bfddfea.jpg" /> in the<img src="9-7400856\22bbf0d9-f252-430c-b2e2-e1bb46edd340.jpg" />, are continuous and nonnegative functions and<img src="9-7400856\62876d81-4dd9-4b9e-b0e4-572eecdb2fd1.jpg" />.</p><p>Beginning with the paper of Erbe and Palamides [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref1">1</xref>], obtained the sufficient conditions for existence solution of the systems of nonlinear boundary value problem</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151554"><label>(1.2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\d631b8fe-9e2d-41c5-857f-958a05ac498e.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <img src="9-7400856\be6cbcb9-3780-4ecc-b8db-1fafd4dabeb0.jpg" /> is continuous (<img src="9-7400856\34e015e4-eb48-4df8-8841-2adcba45c5c2.jpg" />is n-dimensional real Euclidean space) and <img src="9-7400856\52841a9c-580e-45a4-8a11-b37461088ceb.jpg" /> are nonsingular matrices, with <img src="9-7400856\0fc1bd9d-c06a-47f6-8fe3-eecb13b4438d.jpg" /> orthogonal matrix, Erbe and Palamides generalize earlier conditions of Bebernes and Schmitt [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref2">2</xref>] for periodic case. Erbe and Schmitt [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref3">3</xref>] extend the results in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref1">1</xref>] established the sufficient conditions for existence solution of the systems (1.2). The results in [1,3] were obtained via a modifications of a degree-theoretic approach and Leray-Schuader degree and eliminates the modified function approach respectively. None of these earlier results use Green’s function and the first eigenvalues of the corresponding to the linear systems of (1.1).</p><p>There has been progress in the study of the existence of positive solutions of system problem. If <img src="9-7400856\c2534e69-38bd-43f8-ab4c-c902d0e4172d.jpg" /> identity, then (1,1) reduces to the usual periodic boundary value problem for which the literature in both the scalar and systems versions is very extensive (We refer to [4-22] and references therein). For instance a recent paper, Wang [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref4">4</xref>] obtained the existence of periodic solution of a class of non-autonomous second-order systems</p><p><img src="9-7400856\c10817d6-8b2a-446a-983d-cd84394c235b.jpg" /></p><p>where</p><p><img src="9-7400856\c853cdae-7b77-4c28-bbb9-0bfd4412ad27.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="9-7400856\991c7d27-35f4-42d2-978c-1607c2b456ce.jpg" /></p><p>are periodic of period <img src="9-7400856\7aec503b-c171-4868-94cb-fbd198d55453.jpg" /> in the<img src="9-7400856\2bcfc16c-a8b6-452e-b4c1-5be4e1f7ad29.jpg" />, and <img src="9-7400856\12a291e2-5555-4b57-b40e-8f6f84f948fa.jpg" /> is a constantif<img src="9-7400856\e4d22efe-ed87-40b9-9b9e-22abef719634.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\c8990f98-25a8-439b-abcd-830148e4d877.jpg" />and<img src="9-7400856\57493dd4-2c13-47a2-9167-06c37deb26dd.jpg" />, is bounded below or above for appropriate ranges of<img src="9-7400856\465ea3bb-74e7-403d-9981-860d48648711.jpg" />, via fixed point theorem in cones. Franco and Webb [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref5">5</xref>] established the existence of <img src="9-7400856\d2fdfebf-4bc3-425b-b069-1e833bf8c7df.jpg" />-periodic solutions for systems of (1.1) with <img src="9-7400856\a26f8287-5cfc-413a-9e84-73a557b60e5e.jpg" />identity, in the boundary conditions, where <img src="9-7400856\dd11a62e-3b01-45ce-acdc-67585b5c7a77.jpg" /> and <img src="9-7400856\9222fda6-bf34-4c47-a900-7f3b468bb9ac.jpg" /> is a continuous vector valued function, periodic in <img src="9-7400856\2d7e062d-2277-478e-8f2b-50d7b2badebb.jpg" /> with period<img src="9-7400856\5d5fa02a-e3c0-4d7e-89b2-f047ab987311.jpg" />, and <img src="9-7400856\01fbf94a-b454-47d3-aa81-2c723568e1c2.jpg" /> is allowed to have a singularity when<img src="9-7400856\91ef9b0d-582b-4948-a2c4-da267f2e10c3.jpg" />. Non-singular systems, which are included in the same framework that we study here (i.e., they can be reduced to a Hammerstein integral system with positive kernel), have been considered using some other approaches based on fixed point theorems in conical shells, but previously it has always been assumed that the nonlinearity <img src="9-7400856\943b4aca-b201-41a2-9a29-01202b7c3a32.jpg" /> has a constant sign behaviour: <img src="9-7400856\38afd189-af05-4d84-a173-e2283f2ec53a.jpg" />where <img src="9-7400856\25d25e2f-48f4-43aa-8812-b5dcf637d454.jpg" /> for <img src="9-7400856\11a0660d-2291-41c6-b941-8774a09d73a8.jpg" /> (see [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref6">6</xref>]) with <img src="9-7400856\e1dd08dc-23e4-4ba9-8046-a3f03e03d1fc.jpg" /> identity, in the boundary conditions. For systems problem see also [7-12] and references therein.</p><p>Even in the scalar case the existence of periodic solutions for problems with nonsingular and singular case has commanded much attention in recent years (see [13-22] and references therein. In particular, in [13-15] fixed point theorems in conical shells are used to obtain existence and multiplicity results, some of these are improved in this paper. In this notes, we prove result in the case where <img src="9-7400856\e05805e9-a201-443a-8b0c-6dcf25156c85.jpg" /> has no singularity. In scalar case problem see [16-22] and references therein.</p><p>Motivated by these problems mentioned above, we study the existence of nonzero positive solution of (1.1) while we assume that if one components satisfy</p><p><img src="9-7400856\ae017f70-4fb8-4fd8-85d2-7ba245fa9348.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\dad00aec-9d57-4237-967e-c7b011fa504d.jpg" />, and all components of nonlinearity are<img src="9-7400856\52164c8c-6eec-48e4-9ff3-120a85a87c5f.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\27807454-2b26-49b4-b85e-9c56f6130914.jpg" />, where</p><p><img src="9-7400856\ff1cf4bc-fec6-46b1-8c7a-c615a19e959e.jpg" />, is the largest characteristic value of the linear system corresponding to (1.1). The approach is to use the theory of fixed point index for compact maps defined on cones [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref23">23</xref>]. To apply this theory one needs to find the Green’s function. Our purpose here is prove that (1.1) has nontrivial nonnegative solution, assuming the following conditions:</p><p><img src="9-7400856\78b68287-3d3f-49c4-b411-3005d1c1e8a4.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="9-7400856\052b7bc3-766d-4b2e-a131-7a7107e7ca8c.jpg" /></p><p>and</p><p><img src="9-7400856\494bf91f-daf3-45a3-9985-269057e6dbfc.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="9-7400856\c1fe28c5-be71-434c-92d4-7f3d2105b63f.jpg" /></p><p>are continuous and periodic of period <img src="9-7400856\611cce7c-5511-4f5b-90ee-4522e9d09af8.jpg" /> in the <img src="9-7400856\9f47d97f-b903-4cde-b4fe-ba3f9b987687.jpg" /> variable and<img src="9-7400856\df8cfd2b-f91a-4aeb-b4f3-117b7740c30a.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\c565d006-6a29-4b76-ad4a-347c6e83caeb.jpg" />on any subinterval of<img src="9-7400856\54a5d9f2-e020-4e8b-8c8c-6e27b5d1a974.jpg" />.</p><p><img src="9-7400856\431d306f-695a-4bf9-b47d-c5f5bcca9a30.jpg" />There exits <img src="9-7400856\6296df20-2405-44fc-8584-c942c0ee67aa.jpg" /> such that</p><p><img src="9-7400856\e830fa89-6b28-40ea-b6ea-3b4a99e9d9b3.jpg" />where <img src="9-7400856\6edb7e45-1ac9-45a6-9a02-b4596060b6eb.jpg" /> and<img src="9-7400856\13344c33-d335-44ec-b4be-42eba90b9e08.jpg" />, and</p><p><img src="9-7400856\48cca5c4-2aa6-4e7a-a71d-824f4f606045.jpg" />is the largest characteristic value of the linear system corresponding to (1.1),</p><p><img src="9-7400856\6e4f4eae-cb57-4631-afaf-dea55c906f95.jpg" />For all<img src="9-7400856\b4815dda-2d67-4c1f-920e-79d1cdf43584.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="9-7400856\4acf9c2b-4a73-45bf-bcf0-31376e72ac0e.jpg" />where <img src="9-7400856\39e71ad8-949c-43ad-a682-ec5192e06caa.jpg" /> and<img src="9-7400856\04a0e786-f5ee-4f82-823c-0e147bd68899.jpg" />, and</p><p><img src="9-7400856\24eb0db0-42fb-4620-89a2-2e66ff44ab0c.jpg" />is the largest characteristic value of the linear system corresponding to (1.1).</p><p>Remark 1.1. The assumptions <img src="9-7400856\d4c7b56c-ae53-4430-8897-9d2061bdc5a9.jpg" /> and <img src="9-7400856\09241b1b-2133-4ccb-9afa-60bf2f72d958.jpg" /> appeared in Lan [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref24">24</xref>].</p><p>Remark 1.2. The nonzero positive solution has been studied by Lan [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref24">24</xref>] and Hai and Wang [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref25">25</xref>].</p><p>Throughout this paper, we will use the notation<img src="9-7400856\3fa8059b-5a65-49a8-be50-9742bd69dec1.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\1f2feef4-574d-4c2e-b76c-088f7dd39f8c.jpg" />, and denote by <img src="9-7400856\905c6c19-b805-4c56-938e-cd39afee6709.jpg" /></p><p>the usual norm of <img src="9-7400856\abdbd2ab-28e8-4dda-8a51-fa6af7c2549b.jpg" /> for<img src="9-7400856\7ca05762-dee6-4faa-8472-6ff73da239e4.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\59a2a472-5f31-4560-bcd0-d96984aa2177.jpg" />and<img src="9-7400856\94dc2f8f-72f6-44c2-9590-7b103f1c78b1.jpg" />.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Preliminaries</title><p>In this section, we shall introduce some basic lemmas which are used throughout this paper.</p><p>Lemma 2.1. Let <img src="9-7400856\eaa3de5f-7d74-478b-8e43-014f93b877b3.jpg" /> and <img src="9-7400856\4101c9f2-d6c8-468a-a506-7c7f38e12ee7.jpg" /> holds. Let <img src="9-7400856\f0f6eb24-0241-41d4-9906-c7c878f6bdf0.jpg" /> then for<img src="9-7400856\70e3ae25-07c4-48da-9936-0d8ba91d73fa.jpg" />, the periodic boundary value problems problem</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151555"><label>(2.1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\a6e00c75-7c7a-437b-a3a6-377267a92cfb.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>has a unique solution</p><p><img src="9-7400856\8eb5e1dd-8812-4db6-81be-eee2071dff0f.jpg" />where</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151556"><graphic  xlink:href="9-7400856\65778bd0-bf7a-4c79-959e-fe07b361981b.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>(2.1<sup>*</sup>)</p><p>where<img src="9-7400856\fb879f4b-2b64-4aca-b370-f3f1adf83217.jpg" />.</p><p>Proof. Consider the scalar periodic boundary value problems of (2.1) and let <img src="9-7400856\1473966f-bdfc-4554-a39a-3dfd425ef371.jpg" /> and <img src="9-7400856\7c349d94-1ccf-4d33-8c7c-8f29388c9d15.jpg" /> be linearly distinct solutions of the scalar equation of (2.1) and consider the function</p><p><img src="9-7400856\6bab051a-2ef7-4d30-b977-f99cdca92c31.jpg" /></p><p>where the positive sign is taken when<img src="9-7400856\82912dcb-2107-4749-9d80-8f3a2399a8d6.jpg" />, and the negative sign when <img src="9-7400856\2029f391-d5e1-4106-8fb8-04024b0679dd.jpg" />we can obtain this result by routine substitutions of scalar boundary conditions, we do not state it here. <img src="9-7400856\9aa23b69-0899-494c-a8b0-f2c08b28141b.jpg" /></p><p>Lemma 2.2. Let conditions <img src="9-7400856\832c1a29-f8bb-49eb-ba52-746e9e560c98.jpg" /> hold, then<img src="9-7400856\f4ce59f7-862f-4102-b5a0-6ceccc11bbb1.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\2d965145-e9e9-42e6-aa54-32c0217ec08a.jpg" />, is continuous and positive on<img src="9-7400856\5a51705d-bb2b-4e33-8a99-f0967b0ef6f1.jpg" />, and we can find it’s positive minimum value <img src="9-7400856\5c21c39c-7d8b-4615-b3d7-d8eaa1da7384.jpg" /> and maximum value <img src="9-7400856\7d9f8923-afa2-4b54-84dd-3433801bee83.jpg" /> of<img src="9-7400856\a29b6838-d96f-454f-b277-7a0a6b8d5676.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\66ec4d23-1a84-454a-95a5-5ac2bc12f8d9.jpg" />by</p><p><img src="9-7400856\cbe228e7-fade-4e64-ab97-17a9a4a55bac.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\4663905c-390b-484e-bd79-bc5a4f828201.jpg" />and</p><p><img src="9-7400856\b7f0a9ba-94a0-41a9-b076-a7ad5bb3b253.jpg" />,<img src="9-7400856\77a40d1a-c205-4c37-97d9-33eb4e9b1ab6.jpg" />.</p><p>Proof. It is easy to check that<img src="9-7400856\e5732583-cd75-47ed-8d4a-c2aba9a96b32.jpg" />, is continuous and positive on<img src="9-7400856\8ffcc164-8726-4423-9424-51595e3458db.jpg" />,<img src="9-7400856\271b5624-e5d5-4dfb-9d09-3559dc89cf0c.jpg" />.<img src="9-7400856\07d31312-3b69-419f-b67d-0a7b4417b9d6.jpg" /></p><p>It is clear that the problem (1.1) has a solution <img src="9-7400856\e5e10f2e-f201-4def-8087-4c18865c4f81.jpg" /> if and only if <img src="9-7400856\8adf53a0-a5bc-442c-ba0c-8e93fe8f3933.jpg" /> solves the operator equation</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151557"><label>(I)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\42574a59-c395-43e4-974c-57d4608db02d.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>It is easy to verify that the operator <img src="9-7400856\5bb6b3af-1f09-4c0d-b6a0-3fdf0044f802.jpg" /> is completely continuous.</p><p>We define <img src="9-7400856\8cafc3a9-ab7e-4b38-a730-dc7cf282d0ae.jpg" /> corresponding to linear equation of (1.1) by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151558"><label>(2.2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\883a3f1f-d5fe-428b-9e5d-4883bb2f4529.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <img src="9-7400856\5e941490-9a28-4c33-a003-6dd0c1295d97.jpg" /> and <img src="9-7400856\ed505733-c12d-4d8b-bd93-e525fef5050e.jpg" />is Green’s function define in (2.1<sup>*</sup>), and define</p><p><img src="9-7400856\39fc424a-17c8-4ed0-bda5-117fb5e30fd8.jpg" /></p><p>and</p><p><img src="9-7400856\d74a2247-6232-4f4d-be8d-5f965391d7bf.jpg" />where <img src="9-7400856\959b4f37-17e5-4a6c-9c96-8bd54b6c6572.jpg" /> is completely continuous.</p><p>Remark 2.1. Equations (2.2) appeared in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref26">26</xref>].</p><p>It is known that<img src="9-7400856\243830f4-529d-46c7-92ab-37dbd0f41653.jpg" />, is a bounded and surjective linear operator and has a unique extension, denoted by<img src="9-7400856\86a88a2c-8120-47d9-bfe2-be57b839d174.jpg" />, to<img src="9-7400856\e4613267-30cf-4a21-9c0c-403281f90953.jpg" />. We write</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151559"><label>(2.3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\5605e84b-2fb5-4687-8513-221e103331e1.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>It is known that <img src="9-7400856\ad72f18e-c392-4157-8eb9-1f03bfd23a87.jpg" /> is an interior point of the positive cone <img src="9-7400856\bbf1f5ca-c18a-4882-bd3e-7f9350972320.jpg" /> in<img src="9-7400856\5bb411a0-3c8c-4d1b-b104-6fcef68cef0c.jpg" />, where</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151560"><label>(2.4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\ce40ca27-ce1a-4356-ba27-65cb17fbd363.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Lemma 2.3. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref24">24</xref>] <img src="9-7400856\bb563a7c-8937-461e-aa1e-7159a7c0f742.jpg" />is a compact linear operator such that <img src="9-7400856\31739fa7-106e-4f42-90c0-de6bc5fd066f.jpg" /> and for each <img src="9-7400856\44d0e24a-5d54-4410-ab47-6c5c391cd83a.jpg" /> there exists <img src="9-7400856\aed9280f-fc27-46ca-bcde-1d3780dba42f.jpg" /> such that<img src="9-7400856\57289f0f-de55-4bbb-9b32-e0febbb69ea8.jpg" />.</p><p>By Lemma 2.3 and the well-known Krein-Rutman theorem (see [23, Theorem 3.1] or [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref27">27</xref>], it is easy to see that <img src="9-7400856\b111fca2-5a04-4457-81eb-e2069bf03212.jpg" /> and there exists <img src="9-7400856\a911729a-0e22-44d3-ba6a-199ceb0765ba.jpg" /> such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151561"><label>(2.5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\8e679b69-018c-4346-a8fb-f361873087dd.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <img src="9-7400856\10187d27-af0f-4b0a-bc5e-9b9b4050ffd1.jpg" /> and <img src="9-7400856\b96e436c-7aa3-4989-8cd5-2f5c7bee9603.jpg" /> is the spectral radius of<img src="9-7400856\af267492-6fb9-41af-aa79-03755da308c1.jpg" />.</p><p>We use the following maximum norm in<img src="9-7400856\6b266373-4d4d-498b-a187-cf8ae0685235.jpg" />:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151562"><label>(2.6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\3e95b1ac-bd71-4682-b64a-e59f23d6e36a.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<img src="9-7400856\e7edd443-50f0-469a-b892-480ad287fa41.jpg" />. We denote by</p><p><img src="9-7400856\825829a6-e33c-424a-9011-5d1b789ca8c8.jpg" />the Banach space of continuous functions from <img src="9-7400856\17aa988d-03c0-410c-b378-6ffa353ba1f1.jpg" /> into <img src="9-7400856\c88c8e60-287d-43b6-9f48-3b750314b215.jpg" /> with norm</p><p><img src="9-7400856\e31b79d0-634c-4847-a806-c22f3f6e8c8c.jpg" />where <img src="9-7400856\9718c957-a507-4b83-8d6c-cb64371c451a.jpg" /> for<img src="9-7400856\778fb2a5-e681-429e-aa12-0e9063dc9223.jpg" />.</p><p>We use the standard positive cone in <img src="9-7400856\a7fbbc75-35c2-4371-9c38-9205c9e45ead.jpg" /> defined by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151563"><label>(2.7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\38f5be51-22a1-4daa-98c6-dacd7719057f.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We can write <img src="9-7400856\9ad5c125-b71d-4ff0-a8f5-edbcf4ec7216.jpg" /> defined in (2.2) as operator equations</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151564"><label>(2.8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\721f41a9-2f11-43cb-a8d1-7c78a8a778c1.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <img src="9-7400856\bd9d79ff-1292-4996-a383-e38bc18d90c3.jpg" /> and <img src="9-7400856\46b40ba8-f6d4-4292-b993-c7afc9d0d492.jpg" /> are define above and define a Nemytskii operator</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151565"><label>(2.9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\005462de-9c15-42a3-b35a-e925c311ad6e.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>It is easy to verify that (1.1) is equivalent to the following fixed point equation:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151566"><label>(2.10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\158a559a-7c0b-4fd4-9aa1-f2c3045c82fd.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Note that (2.10) same as<img src="9-7400856\885880ab-d99a-4453-bb8d-b3575708f2aa.jpg" />.</p><p>Recall that a solution <img src="9-7400856\aa0a7ad7-7e41-42d3-bd16-dd264b9058ec.jpg" /> of (1.1) is said to be a nonzero positive solution if<img src="9-7400856\028ca942-f1b9-4d76-9f7e-e0219d425a53.jpg" />; that is, <img src="9-7400856\efee8f68-1a05-4253-a460-e51dde353cc6.jpg" />and <img src="9-7400856\cf6e57b1-fe48-4b12-89c9-67f9771af8e6.jpg" /> satisfies <img src="9-7400856\84c3f8eb-e879-439c-8d9e-c9b5834fae21.jpg" /> for <img src="9-7400856\bec806f1-572c-4888-b09a-6828bf176644.jpg" />and <img src="9-7400856\93b73fb3-5809-4100-9d27-0617a87b3fa1.jpg" /> and there exists such that <img src="9-7400856\9bd828f1-91fe-4093-9c2a-23b06cbfe60a.jpg" /> <img src="9-7400856\793f9853-a2ee-4685-8913-333d32248a48.jpg" /> on<img src="9-7400856\20a94c27-f278-4c02-a53f-9ce8f8af9215.jpg" />.</p><p>Let <img src="9-7400856\822cb66a-e6b0-4931-9ad9-793b1c7bc9c0.jpg" /> and let</p><p><img src="9-7400856\ef93d677-b94c-4810-916b-9107fa1db647.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\ba28d08f-e780-4b86-94c1-688ea658e7c2.jpg" /></p><p>and</p><p><img src="9-7400856\654d0d4b-f750-4781-a4c8-1b5f60a12a56.jpg" />.</p><p>We need some results from the theory of the fixed point index for compact maps defined on cones in a Banach space <img src="9-7400856\ec60d0ba-9c09-443e-8119-2f812ee2176f.jpg" /> (see [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref23">23</xref>]).</p><p>Lemma 2.4. Assume that <img src="9-7400856\eade9d47-8671-4c08-b9fa-bbb00706dbb5.jpg" /> is a compact map. Then the following results hold:</p><p>1) If there exists <img src="9-7400856\53d6056e-4ce0-4866-b31b-597778c0655d.jpg" /> such that <img src="9-7400856\37b9663c-a49c-4f56-8797-a7a5e9f23e5b.jpg" /> for <img src="9-7400856\640ad36c-eabb-495d-85ae-efc592f99000.jpg" /> and<img src="9-7400856\ddcbce3a-a229-4183-9caa-6973c1de412a.jpg" />, then <img src="9-7400856\66082c9e-8e31-4fc4-b479-7a38622242d4.jpg" /></p><p>2) If <img src="9-7400856\809776f7-f40e-4203-b911-2cbc73e35c8a.jpg" /> for <img src="9-7400856\65bea4d7-dd30-48c6-a976-90ce7d51066b.jpg" /> and<img src="9-7400856\31f219b6-6e93-407a-8fd5-672ee7d78035.jpg" />, then <img src="9-7400856\c4a9666f-7422-48b8-a3d3-03e79d74a400.jpg" /></p><p>3) If <img src="9-7400856\115b6e3d-5d25-4907-9810-5537fff4dc63.jpg" /> and <img src="9-7400856\fd3bb9cf-4423-442e-99da-eda547a82fa0.jpg" /> for some<img src="9-7400856\04002d1f-8d5f-4ef3-a070-399647c1bb3d.jpg" />, then <img src="9-7400856\c508b167-ef1a-4058-a81e-96209b6b7eca.jpg" /> has a fixed point in<img src="9-7400856\3dd17a92-c053-4d29-830f-513162454dde.jpg" />.</p><p>Now, we are in a position to give our main result and proof analogous results were established in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.21481-ref24">24</xref>].</p><p>Theorem 2.1. Assume that <img src="9-7400856\4dfb1504-9377-409c-9615-cee15106b51b.jpg" />-<img src="9-7400856\52830864-24fd-4506-a15b-cb07350b3504.jpg" /> holds. <img src="9-7400856\4928d0e2-089a-4b98-ad8c-f9f1444d51fa.jpg" />be the same as in (2.5). Assume that the following conditions hold:</p><p><img src="9-7400856\8769bf51-67cc-488d-af68-4e1c4b532181.jpg" />. There exist<img src="9-7400856\9a1fd19b-475c-4154-ab96-412d661d8e0c.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\1fd77cbf-b81e-4cdb-a5fc-f5987c3edaca.jpg" />and <img src="9-7400856\dfbed0e4-c0ce-4281-b32f-3b5530af2b64.jpg" /> such that <img src="9-7400856\0ce54cf1-88d3-488a-8ce9-fb8f54fd8b2d.jpg" /> for <img src="9-7400856\ccdafc34-6e4a-488e-bbce-af301dcc49ce.jpg" /> and all <img src="9-7400856\c288870f-89d8-4cea-9acd-3da56ce6db5e.jpg" /> with<img src="9-7400856\41c5a002-4f09-4389-aeee-79645bec882e.jpg" />.</p><p><img src="9-7400856\0fedfd62-b3aa-409f-bcf8-48836a30928d.jpg" />. There exist <img src="9-7400856\734e312b-0872-407a-811b-b4d07611902c.jpg" /> and <img src="9-7400856\227de428-925b-49a2-a34c-a6f3ecc78504.jpg" /> such that for<img src="9-7400856\b643dc48-f694-4585-8bb2-10ee27988a4c.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\2bca6e56-7b60-4334-aee1-b8ccc6e3eec5.jpg" />for <img src="9-7400856\50b85a08-8de7-4849-8e6b-1a281981df28.jpg" /> and all <img src="9-7400856\15660214-ed5e-4a31-966f-77d08f6b3e69.jpg" /> with<img src="9-7400856\b8e18c5d-962f-4c76-a218-8d8b63aa8904.jpg" />. Then (1.1) has a nonzero positive solution in<img src="9-7400856\35670bdc-e037-40f7-bf23-dceb41781a8e.jpg" />.</p><p>Proof. By Lemma 2.1, Lemma 2.2 and Lemma 2.3, <img src="9-7400856\114a2825-16f1-409c-8f48-31cbc63a3207.jpg" />is compact and satisfies<img src="9-7400856\9112c4da-4b97-4e2d-a597-350088bef26a.jpg" />.</p><p>This, together with the continuity of <img src="9-7400856\5dcac44b-7905-465b-ab9c-22791fc5e07c.jpg" /> in<img src="9-7400856\df5d2b85-dd65-4b6f-ae98-5a2b588e954d.jpg" />, implies that <img src="9-7400856\85f646cc-0d29-4d90-b5c4-7615194262ad.jpg" /> is compact. Without loss of generalization, we assume that <img src="9-7400856\5c9e5cab-4b5b-4c28-a309-f0fed31ec314.jpg" /> for<img src="9-7400856\b30eb06f-0965-46e9-9b42-c6416baf81b6.jpg" />. Let<img src="9-7400856\b83bfffc-25f8-4b83-8695-d2dd40d76d37.jpg" />, &#160;where <img src="9-7400856\fcaf44ac-107a-42d8-9c1d-047a8db38557.jpg" /> is the same as in (2.5). We prove that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151567"><label>(2.11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\4c47a07b-a4b3-43b8-908b-92deaabc86c6.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>In fact, if not, there exist <img src="9-7400856\370e1532-a966-40c7-bedc-9da1c1f6f341.jpg" /> and <img src="9-7400856\9dbcd3d8-58fc-4b40-a643-55769f13f8d8.jpg" /> such that<img src="9-7400856\86fee2a1-434d-44c2-b026-e66cf81ac814.jpg" />. Then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151568"><label>(2.12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\4c479b55-39df-4685-8482-73783dca0c4d.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>It follows that <img src="9-7400856\f9e3fe5d-4b69-4e0f-a231-50c38e614b7f.jpg" /> for<img src="9-7400856\798db0e3-8b94-48dd-b6e3-a268c32eb8e1.jpg" />. Let</p><p><img src="9-7400856\0be17c37-0135-4a65-b063-8e5e0c3a91a2.jpg" />.</p><p>Then <img src="9-7400856\3b4ed10c-526c-4bfa-9cd9-691431410624.jpg" /> and<img src="9-7400856\3160df8e-769e-489f-b727-0604f7623247.jpg" />,<img src="9-7400856\6df1766e-604f-4e77-b773-37a5f9abe206.jpg" />. This, together with (2.12), <img src="9-7400856\599ccbee-385b-40da-bc63-bf6cdb7067d1.jpg" />and (2.5), implies that for all <img src="9-7400856\06f15088-b999-41b2-a230-9f2539a707ae.jpg" /></p><p><img src="9-7400856\b7c53446-baa1-4d62-9f11-b3d991b5073a.jpg" /></p><p>Hence, we have<img src="9-7400856\9a6739ac-2f2c-493f-a018-89ace79cbaca.jpg" />, a contradiction. It follows from (2.11) and Lemma 2.4 (1) <img src="9-7400856\d3071c4a-40b2-41e4-9903-4202133c5a50.jpg" /></p><p>For each<img src="9-7400856\0a07e27b-bcbc-4e38-9001-095db0583795.jpg" />, by the continuity of<img src="9-7400856\3e4b3b2f-3ee5-433b-8ddd-df3bed0ddb06.jpg" />, there exists <img src="9-7400856\8cb717ca-8038-4803-852a-795bb92a9902.jpg" /> such that <img src="9-7400856\03acf43a-cab1-4d23-9a76-efff13fcbc7f.jpg" /> for<img src="9-7400856\1be18a17-9c79-44f2-9e66-7d2751a107f4.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\4b72e684-814e-46c1-92f1-9d53ecb5603b.jpg" />with<img src="9-7400856\de5f2e4a-2c56-48b4-b3ac-6aadee0931f2.jpg" />.</p><p>This, together with <img src="9-7400856\4c1b5c80-b1ac-4101-a5a0-d238d37b3291.jpg" /> implies that, for each <img src="9-7400856\44380a05-1656-490a-9759-90c6f9300703.jpg" /> <img src="9-7400856\61f57a31-988e-4272-9899-c4e1bee15491.jpg" /> for <img src="9-7400856\65ea9ce8-0f30-4aa3-b775-895feab3bb04.jpg" /> and all</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151569"><label>(2.13)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\d525f172-97e1-4014-8532-e0431f95d748.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Since</p><p><img src="9-7400856\1ecbf714-e015-4a8c-88a4-8e78a90e21b3.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="9-7400856\a73c09d2-a40c-4e76-a7f3-816b3e399c45.jpg" />exists and is bounded and satisfies</p><p><img src="9-7400856\64f67cb4-1555-411a-be08-22fea1d451a5.jpg" />.</p><p>Let <img src="9-7400856\3af0c9ba-b3b1-4df9-a1cb-7b98ba37c3c9.jpg" /> for<img src="9-7400856\f1cbe0df-09b7-4e13-ac5d-953b1f1ecbaa.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="9-7400856\b12ad10d-4d21-4c52-84df-dca6eff8cf09.jpg" /></p><p>and</p><p><img src="9-7400856\a45f0fbf-5a73-45e6-88f7-017a571f43fe.jpg" />where <img src="9-7400856\0f40fadc-bccd-4f00-ba51-e541175a42ad.jpg" /> for<img src="9-7400856\34906cf6-25ea-4ca5-9609-3932e3f8c2ba.jpg" />. Let<img src="9-7400856\a60d36bc-4a78-4a1c-bbbe-9288edc3cf65.jpg" />. We prove</p><p><img src="9-7400856\828b10a3-b9e6-45cb-836a-7cf7fb3a8e4e.jpg" /></p><p>Indeed, if not, there exist <img src="9-7400856\21e6bc96-0c29-46f4-823f-413f4b608bb2.jpg" /> and <img src="9-7400856\81e3f3e6-7d4d-4341-b60c-b25799182a29.jpg" /> such that<img src="9-7400856\ae13cdd7-a346-43ab-af8a-b7740938b16d.jpg" />. By (2.13), we have for each<img src="9-7400856\6c0893b9-b0b2-4fe3-b63a-df14813dd0d0.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="9-7400856\4dca2088-088a-40cf-bd6b-48df12ac150c.jpg" />for<img src="9-7400856\58b2c683-d227-4496-a242-6d5a4a5d036f.jpg" />where<img src="9-7400856\175ebeee-da1a-4ada-8500-377ccba9277c.jpg" />. Taking the maximum in the above inequality implies that</p><p><img src="9-7400856\ce3c1ddb-263b-4144-aec3-c246bd634c66.jpg" /></p><p>for<img src="9-7400856\3b610e9b-c63a-40f5-9d13-bb5c19a81e65.jpg" />, and</p><p><img src="9-7400856\969c7528-6e1c-43d2-b7c4-e02c65f90678.jpg" /></p><p>for<img src="9-7400856\cc5dba89-90bb-49e9-a4d7-e197ae9e5104.jpg" />.</p><p>Since</p><p><img src="9-7400856\e1d33ba4-564a-4385-a794-e03377900927.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="9-7400856\7dc8eb92-e567-4e11-a5b6-d28a8d25a4fa.jpg" /></p><p>for<img src="9-7400856\eac1fbd0-d535-441e-a85a-542d68c4d68e.jpg" />.</p><p>Hence, we have</p><p><img src="9-7400856\6c119c39-57c9-42b4-bc9b-38303d6e1f73.jpg" />.</p><p>a contradiction. By (2.14) and Lemma 2.3 (2), <img src="9-7400856\755084a6-0963-49ed-b377-ca00a38b6cc3.jpg" /> By Lemma 2.4 (3), (1.1) has a solution in<img src="9-7400856\7910ed10-bf38-410e-9d16-a2bcdb6e69d7.jpg" />.<img src="9-7400856\4d0be508-b495-4d37-8fd9-cd0a0ba9cc17.jpg" /></p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Application</title><p>Let the systems</p><disp-formula id="scirp.21481-formula151570"><label>(3.1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="9-7400856\c0a5ddff-b9af-475e-a303-d8da4690e4ee.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<img src="9-7400856\822f1591-879e-4e83-b4bb-ed1ca5738d5a.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\80c00f58-b4eb-43d8-8b9a-43cf6973148a.jpg" />and</p><p><img src="9-7400856\21e0be15-18a5-46e9-9de2-b7095a5be9d1.jpg" />. Assume that the following conditions hold:</p><p>1) For each<img src="9-7400856\ada99e42-c17b-425d-b8f8-e566f49b583e.jpg" />, <img src="9-7400856\40c4012a-5f67-4af4-abb4-0eb75610bcb3.jpg" />and <img src="9-7400856\d5783796-d0ce-4f64-a7b2-b187401edd2a.jpg" /> is continuous and let</p><p><img src="9-7400856\e44ea03c-d5d3-4cc7-b3f8-a5b55808032a.jpg" />.</p><p>2) There exists <img src="9-7400856\a0faef68-002e-4cc2-a14b-124c5d48fa7a.jpg" /> such that <img src="9-7400856\e54e0e89-fa4a-494a-8e6d-31972840a995.jpg" /> and<img src="9-7400856\783c3bdc-1c11-44f7-a396-945b0e23baab.jpg" />.</p><p>Then equation (3.1) have a nonzero positive solution in<img src="9-7400856\a55f01fc-b91b-4153-9fe7-a3b325fa1d90.jpg" />.</p><p>Proof. For each<img src="9-7400856\ffe822ac-5032-42f4-ad73-722e5ac913b4.jpg" />, we define a function <img src="9-7400856\be2377e1-fc6c-4cfd-b92e-27de8d652fe0.jpg" /> by</p><p><img src="9-7400856\16c99fc0-4ee2-40d3-bb20-faa7c7e18354.jpg" /></p><p>Let <img src="9-7400856\ef6f56e7-0e8a-4018-b135-abbbaeabb0e5.jpg" /> and</p><p><img src="9-7400856\e9530a96-81fb-4371-984c-12756d7d2e64.jpg" />.</p><p>Then for <img src="9-7400856\59350465-f98f-4947-8328-feb80257a46e.jpg" /> and <img src="9-7400856\28c57d8d-89ee-4126-9ecd-f5200cc5db19.jpg" /> with <img src="9-7400856\0b1e8f2d-2d61-4806-a922-ffd17f5ffdfa.jpg" /> and<img src="9-7400856\c1f9e9b8-fd30-41d2-a063-93df08fdb6e6.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="9-7400856\6b4509ea-02f0-4e12-9961-93eb6ccbe215.jpg" /></p><p>Hence, <img src="9-7400856\7684f140-8403-4909-9331-753402a37b86.jpg" />holds. Let<img src="9-7400856\ef7d668a-b4e7-4164-ae85-edb349d61b21.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="9-7400856\2c68d3f0-54ab-44a4-aad2-d3aab3c41573.jpg" />.</p><p>Then for <img src="9-7400856\b31739e1-29fe-4783-8707-4a05dde587db.jpg" /> and <img src="9-7400856\c7bedb38-938e-4dfe-833c-1a8892ac3625.jpg" /> with<img src="9-7400856\05971560-fbb3-49e2-a640-24dce77c0f66.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="9-7400856\65377450-484d-4ac3-aac7-d3e194b7f05e.jpg" /></p><p>for <img src="9-7400856\6921a2f4-75a0-4ad4-b683-fd3e8819b7e1.jpg" /> it follows that <img src="9-7400856\9d647a06-0176-4fe3-95cf-cd6278f90bae.jpg" /> holds. The result follows from Theorem 2.1. <img src="9-7400856\ec135345-a5f8-4642-aeb4-1bdb46cce591.jpg" /></p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>REFERENCES</title></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.21481-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">L. H. Erbe and P. K. 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