Positive solutions for a coupled system of nonlinear semipositone fractional boundary value problems (Q2282951)

Summary: In this paper, we consider a four-point boundary value problem for a system of nonlinear semipositone fractional differential equations \[D^\alpha_{0^+}u(t) + \lambda f(t,u(t),v(t))=0,\quad 0<t<1,\] \[D^\alpha_{0^+}v(t) + \mu\!g(t,u(t),v(t))=0, \quad 0<t<1,\] \[u(0)=v(0)=0, \,\,a_1D^\beta_{0^+}u(1)=b_1D^\beta_{0^+}v(\xi), \,\,a_2D^\beta_{0^+}v(1)=b_2D^\beta_{0^+}u(\eta),\;\; \eta,\xi\in(0,1), \] where the coefficients \(a_i, b_i\), \(i = 1,2\), are real positive constants, \( \alpha \in(1,2]\), \(\beta \in(0,1]\), \(D_{0^+}^\alpha,D_{0^+}^\beta\) are the standard Riemann-Liouville derivatives. Values of the parameters \(\lambda\) and \(\mu\) are determined for which the boundary value problem has a positive solution by utilizing a fixed point theorem on cone.