Existence of solutions of nonlinear and non-local fractional boundary value problems (Q2325707)

The following fractional analog of the nonlinear equation is condidered \[ ^CD^\alpha u(t) + f(t,u(t))=0, \ \ \ 0 <t <1, \tag{1} \] with non-local boundary conditions \[ u'(0)=-\delta[u], \ u'(1)=\beta[u] - \frac{1}{b} u(\eta), \ b>0, \ \eta \in [0,1],\tag{2} \] where \(^CD^\alpha\) denotes the Caputo fractional derivative of order \(\alpha \in (1,2)\); \(\delta[.],\beta[.]\) are suitable linear and continuous functionals on \(C[0,1]\) and \(f: [0,1] \times \mathbb{R} \to [0,\infty)\) is a continuous function. By Krasnoselskii's fixed point theorem and fixed point index theory, the authors establish some new results on the existence of non-zero solutions of the boundary value problem (1)--(2) depending on the linear functionals and positive parameters. Sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions in a particular case of the boundary conditions are obtained. Some examples illustrating the obtained results are given, too.