Volume 285, Issue 1 pp. 27-41
Research Article

Positive solutions for mixed problems of singular fractional differential equations

Ravi P. Agarwal

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Ravi P. Agarwal

Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University–Kingsville, 700 University Blvd., Kingsville, TX 78363-8202, USA

Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University–Kingsville, 700 University Blvd., Kingsville, TX 78363-8202, USA, Phone: +1-361-593-2600.Search for more papers by this author
Donal O'Regan

Donal O'Regan

Department of Mathematics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

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Svatoslav Staněk

Svatoslav Staněk

Department of Mathematical Analysis, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, 17. listopadu 12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic

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First published: 19 October 2011
Citations: 78

Abstract

We investigate the existence of positive solutions to the singular fractional boundary value problem: \documentclass{article}\usepackage{amssymb}\begin{document}\pagestyle{empty}$^c\hspace{-1.0pt}D^{\alpha }u +f(t,u,u^{\prime },^c\hspace{-2.0pt}D^{\mu }u)=0$\end{document}equation image, u′(0) = 0, u(1) = 0, where 1 < α < 2, 0 < μ < 1, f is a Lq-Carathéodory function, \documentclass{article}\usepackage{amssymb}\begin{document}\pagestyle{empty}$q > \frac{1}{\alpha -1}$\end{document}equation image, and f(t, x, y, z) may be singular at the value 0 of its space variables x, y, z. Here \documentclass{article}\usepackage{amssymb}\begin{document}\pagestyle{empty}$^c \hspace{-1.0pt}D$\end{document}equation image stands for the Caputo fractional derivative. The results are based on combining regularization and sequential techniques with a fixed point theorem on cones.

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