Existence of extremal solutions for discontinuous fractional functional differential equations (Q2267160)

Summary: We consider the following initial value problem of fractional neutral functional differential equation \[ \begin{cases} ^cD^\alpha[x(t)-k(t,x_t)]=F(t,x_t),\text{ a.e. }t\in (t_0,t_0+\sigma]\\ x_{t_0}=\varphi\end{cases} \] where \(^cD^\alpha\) is Caputo fractional derivative of order \(0 < \alpha< 1\), \(F:I\times {\mathcal C}\to R^n\) is a given function satisfying some assumptions that will be specified later (see Section 3), and \(\varphi\in{\mathcal C}\). We apply the hybrid fixed point theorem to prove the existence of extremal solutions for certain discontinuous fractional neutral functional differential equations. We do not require the continuity of the nonlinearities involved in the equations.