Existence and uniqueness of solutions for fractional boundary value problems under mild Lipschitz condition (Q2228061)

Summary: This paper deals with the following boundary value problem \[ \begin{cases} D^\alpha u (t) = f (t,u(t)),\, t \in (0,1), \\ u (0) = u(1) = D^{\alpha-3} u(0) = u'(1)=0,\end{cases} \] where \(3<\alpha\leq 4\), \(D^\alpha\) is the Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative, and the nonlinearity \(f\), which could be singular at both \(t=0\) and \(t=1\), is required to be continuous on \((0,1)\times\mathbb{R}\) satisfying a mild Lipschitz assumption. Based on the Banach fixed point theorem on an appropriate space, we prove that this problem possesses a unique continuous solution \(u\) satisfying \(|u(t)|\leq c\omega (t)\), for \(t\in [0,1]\) and \(c>0\), where \(\omega (t):= t^{\alpha-2} (1-t)^2\).