Existence results for Caputo type sequential fractional differential inclusions with nonlocal integral boundary conditions (Q2634332)

The authors study a class of Caputo type sequential fractional differential inclusions with nonlocal Riemann-Liouville fractional integral boundary conditions, i.e., \[ (^c D^\alpha +k\, ^cD^{\alpha -1})\,x(t)\in F(t,x(t)),\,\, t\in [0,1],\,\, 2<\alpha\leq 3, \] \[ x(0)=0,\,\, x'(0)=0,\,\, x(\varsigma )=a\int\limits_0^\eta \tfrac{(\eta-s)^{\beta -1}}{\Gamma (\beta)}x(s)ds , \] where \(^c D^\alpha \) denotes the Caputo fractional derivative of order \(\alpha ,\) \(0<\eta <\varsigma <1,\) \(F: [0,1]\times R\to P(\mathbb{R})\) is a multivalued map, \(P(\mathbb{R})\) is the family of all nonempty subsets of \(\mathbb{R}\), and \(k\), \(a\), \(\beta\) are appropriate positive real constants. The existence of solutions for the given problem is established for the cases of convex and non-convex multivalued maps by using standard fixed point theorems. The obtained results are well illustrated by examples.