Non-spurious solutions to discrete boundary value problems through variational methods

Abstract

Using direct variational method we consider the existence of non-spurious solutions to the following Dirichlet problem $\ddot{x}\left( t\right) =f\left( t,x\left( t\right) \right) $, $x\left( 0\right) =x\left( 1\right) =0 $ where $f:\left[ 0,1\right] \times \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is a jointly continuous function convex in $x$ which does not need to satisfy any further growth conditions.