“…The most common approach is topological, for example Schauder fixed point theorem was used in [12], Schaefer fixed point theorem was employed in [14], Leray-Shauder degree theory was exploited in [4,5,25], fixed point index on cones was applied in [16,23] and continuation methods were used in [3]. Variational methods, making use of the Nehari manifold, have been used in [1,21], super and subsolution methods were applied in [7,11] and monotone techniques in [9].…”