Existence of positive solutions of nonlinear fractional differential equations (Q1874561)

The authors consider fractional differential equations based on fractional differential operators of Riemann-Liouville type. The equations considered contain a linear multiterm fractional differential operator. The authors give sufficient conditions for the equation to have positive solutions in four theorems (relating to slightly different conditions in each case). In the last part of the paper, they consider also the question of whether the equations have a unique positive solution.