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Applied Mathematics, 2011, 2, 993-998 doi:10.4236/am.2011.28137 Published Online August 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/am) Approach to a Fifth-Order Boundary Value Problem, via Sperner’s Lemma Panos K. Palamides, Evgenia H. Papageorgiou Hellenic Naval Academy, Piraeus, Greece E-mail: ppalam@otenet.gr, epap@.gr Received November 29, 2010; revised May 31, 2011; accepted June 7, 2011 Abstract We consider the five-point boundary value problem for a fifth-order differential equation, where the nonlin- earity is superlinear at both the origin and +infinity. Our method of proof combines the Kneser’s theorem with the well-known from combinatorial topology Sperner’s lemma. We also notice that our geometric ap- proach is strongly based on the associated vector field. Keywords: Fifth-Order Differential Equation, Vector Field, Kneser’s Theorem, Sperner’s Lemma 1. Introduction Their technique assumed that the nonlinearity grew ei- ther superlinearly or sublinearly. The growth assumptions and calculations involving the Green’s function followed by an application of Krasnoselskii’s Theorem yielded the result. In this paper we study the boundary value problem x?5? c t F t, x t , x t , x?4? ?t? ? ? ? ? ??? ? ???? ? ?t??? ? ? ? Recently an increasing interest in studying the existence of solution and positive solutions to boundary-value prob- lems for higher order differential equation is observed, see for example [2-7]. Especially, Graef and Yang [4] Hao et al. [8] Ge and Bai [9] and Kelevedjiev, Palamides and Po- pivanov [7] proved the existence of results on nonlinear boundary-value problem for fourth order equations. We are aware of limited number of works that study the boundary value problem for fifth order differential equations. We mention the work of Doronin and Larkin [10], which deals with the one-dimensional Kawahara equation that is a non- linear fifth-order ODE with a convective nonlinearity, w