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# Existence and multiplicity results for second-order discontinuous problems via non-ordered lower and upper solutions

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Rodrigo López Pouso was partially supported by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain, and FEDER, Project MTM2016-75140-P, and Xunta de Galicia ED341D R2016/022 and GRC2015/004. Jorge Rodríguez-López was financially supported by Xunta de Galicia Scholarship ED481A-2017/178

• We present existence and multiplicity principles for second–order discontinuous problems with nonlinear functional conditions. They are based on the method of lower and upper solutions and a recent extension of the Leray–Schauder topological degree to a class of discontinuous operators.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 34A36, 34B15; Secondary: 47H11.

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