Abstract
This paper provides a uniqueness result for positive solutions of the Neumann and periodic boundary value problems associated with the ϕ-Laplacian equation
(
ϕ
(
u
′
)
)
′
+
a
(
t
)
g
(
u
)
=
0
,
(\phi \left(u^{\prime} ))^{\prime} +a\left(t)g\left(u)=0,
where ϕ is a homeomorphism with ϕ(0) = 0, a(t) is a stepwise indefinite weight and g(u) is a continuous function. When dealing with the p-Laplacian differential operator ϕ(s) = ∣s∣
p−2
s with p > 1, and the nonlinear term g(u) = u
γ
with
γ
∈
R
\gamma \in {\mathbb{R}}
, we prove the existence of a unique positive solution when γ ∈ ]−
∞
\infty
, (1 − 2p)/(p − 1)] ∪ ]p − 1, +
∞
\infty
[.