We prove that a u0-concave operator can include other concave operators, and derive a sufficient and necessary condition for the existence and uniqueness of the fixed point of a kind of u0-concave operator under a weaker condition.
In this article, we establish the existence of at least two positive solutions for the semi-positone m-point boundary value problem with a parameter u （t） ＋ λf （t, u） = 0, t ∈ （0, 1）, u （0） = sum （biu （ξ i ）） from i=1 to m-2, u（1）= sum （aiu（ξ i ）） from i=1 to m-2, where λ 〉 0 is a parameter, 0 〈 ξ 1 〈 ξ 2 〈 ··· 〈 ξ m 2 〈 1 with 0 〈sum ai from i=1 to m-2 〈 1, sum bi from i=1 to m-2 =1 b i 〈 1, a i , b i ∈ [0, ∞） and f （t, u） ≥ M with M is a positive constant. The method employed is the Leggett-Williams fixed-point theorem. As an application, an example is given to demonstrate the main result.
