This paper investigates the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for a class of nonlinear boundary-value problem of second-order differential equations with integral boundary conditions in ordered Banach spaces. The arguments are based upon a specially constructed cone and the fixed point theory in a cone for strict set contraction operators. The nonexistence of a positive solution is also studied.

By using Mawhin's continuation theorem, some sufficient conditions for the existence of solution for a class of second-order differential equations with integral boundary conditions at resonance are established, which are complement of previously known results. The interesting point is that we shall deal with the case dim Ker L = 2, which will cause some difficulties in constructing the projector Q . Since all the existence results obtained in previous papers are for the case dim Ker L = 1, our work is new.

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