We establish that the elliptic equation defined in an exterior domain of ℝn, n≥3, has a positive solution which decays to 0 as under quite general assumptions upon f and g.

In this work, we consider the periodic boundary value problem where a,c∈L1(0,T) and f is a Carathéodory function. An existence theorem for positive periodic solutions is proved in the case where the associated Green function is nonnegative. Our result is valid for systems with strong singularities, and answers partially the open problem raised in Torres [‘Weak singularities may help periodic solutions to exist’, J. Differential Equations232 (2007), 277–284].

In this paper, we first prove an existence theorem for the integrodifferential equation (*)where f,k,x are functions with values in a Banach space E and the integral is taken in the sense of Henstock–Kurzweil–Pettis. In the second part of the paper we show that the set S of all solutions of the problem (*) is compact and connected in (C(Id,E),ω), where .

We give some general results concerning continuity of measurable homomorphisms of topological groups. As a consequence we show that a Christensen measurable homomorphism of a Polish abelian group into a locally compact topological group is continuous. We also obtain similar results for the universally measurable homomorphisms and the homomorphisms that have the Baire property.