%0 Journal Article %T The Existence and Multiplicity of Positive Solutions for Second-Order Periodic Boundary Value Problem %A Feng Wang %A Fang Zhang %A Fuli Wang %J Journal of Function Spaces and Applications %D 2012 %I Hindawi Publishing Corporation %R 10.1155/2012/725646 %X The existence and multiplicity of positive solutions are established for second-order periodic boundary value problem. Our results are based on the theory of a fixed point index for A-proper semilinear operators defined on cones due to Cremins. Our approach is different in essence from other papers and the main results of this paper are also new. %U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jfsa/2012/725646/