Existence theory for an arbitrary order fractional differential equation with deviating argument (Q411476): Difference between revisions

The authors give some sufficient conditions for the existence of at least one or multiple positive solutions of the following nonlinear fractional differential equation with deviating argument: \[ \begin{cases} D^\alpha u(t)+h(t)f(u(\theta(t)))=0, \;t\in (0,1),\\ [D^\beta u(t)]_{t=1}=0,\\ u^{(i)}(0)=0,\;i=0,1,\dots, n-2,\end{cases} \] where \(u^{(i)}\) is the \(i\)th derivative of \(u\), \(n>3\) \((n\in \mathbb{N})\), \(1\leq \beta\leq n-2\) and \(n-1<\alpha \leq n.\) \(D^\alpha\) is the Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of order \(\alpha\). The functions \(f:[0,\infty)\to [0,\infty)\), \(h:[0,1]\to [0,1]\) and \(\theta:(0,1)\to (0,1)\) are continuous. The proofs are obtained by means of Krasnoselkii's fixed point theorem and the fixed point theorem developed by \textit{R. W. Leggett} and \textit{L. R. Williams} [``Multiple positive fixed points of nonlinear operators on ordered Banach spaces'', Indiana Univ. Math. J. 28, 673--688 (1979; Zbl 0421.47033)].