“…There has been increasing interest in the investigation for boundary value problems of nonlinear impulsive differential equations during the past few years, and many works have been published about the existence of solutions for second-order impulsive differential equations. There are some common techniques to approach these problems: Fixed point theorems [8,9,31], the method of upper and lower solutions [7], and topological degree theory [37]. In the last few years, variational methods and critical point theory have been used to determine the existence of solutions for impulsive differential equations under certain boundary conditions, see [1,21,43,44,46,48] and the references therein.…”