RT Journal Article T1 Second–order discontinuous ODEs and billiard problems A1 Rodríguez López, Jorge A1 Tomeček, Jan K1 Discontinuous differential equations K1 Differential inclusions K1 Impulsive differential equations K1 Billiard problem K1 Multiple solutions K1 Dirichlet problem AB e present an existence principle for boundary value problems involving discontinuous ordinary differential equations of the second order using the Krasovskii regularization technique. Especially we obtain sufficient conditions of transversality type for Krasovskii solutions to be also Carathéodory solutions of the original problem. This result is applied on a certain billiard problem, which can be thought as an ordinary differential equation with state-dependent impulses that is equivalent to certain discontinuous differential equation. In particular, we obtain new existence and multiplicity results for Dirichlet problems in billiard spaces with time-varying boundaries PB Elsevier SN 0022-247X YR 2024 FD 2024 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33786 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33786 LA eng NO Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Volume 536, Issue 1, 2024, 128237 NO Jorge Rodríguez–López was partially supported by Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Spain, and Feder, Project PID2020-113275GB-I00. Jan Tomeček was supported by Palacký University in Olomouc (grant no. IGA_PrF_2023_009) DS Minerva RD 27 abr 2026