Singular positone and semipositone boundary value problems of nonlinear fractional differential equations (Q1036384)

Summary: We present some new existence results for the singular positone and semipositone nonlinear fractional boundary value problem \[ {\mathbf D}_0^\alpha u(t)=\mu a(t)f(t,u(t)), \quad 0<t<1, \] \[ u(0)=u(1)=u'(0)=u'(1)=0, \] where \(\mu>0\), \(a\), and \(f\) are continuous, \(\alpha\in (3,4]\) is a real number, and \({\mathbf D}_{0+}^\alpha\) is Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative. The nonlinearity may be singular in its dependent variable. Two examples are given to illustrate the main results.