Existence of a positive solution to systems of differential equations of fractional order (Q651614)

The author considers a system of higher-order fractional boundary value problems \[ -D_{0^+}^{\vartheta_1} y_1(t)=\lambda_1 a_1(t) f(y_1(t),y_2(t)),\;-D_{0^+}^{\vartheta_2} y_2(t)=\lambda_2 a_2(t) g(y_1(t),y_2(t)),\quad t\in[0,1] \] with the conditions, either \[ y_1^{(i)}(0)=0=y_2^{(i)}(0),\quad 0\leq i\leq n-2 \] and \[ [D_{0^+}^{\alpha}y_1(t)]_{t=1}=0=[D_{0^+}^{\alpha}y_2(t)]_{t=1},\quad 1\leq \alpha\leq n-2 \] or \[ y_1^{(i)}(0)=0=y_2^{(i)}(0),\quad 0\leq i\leq n-2 \] and \[ [D_{0^+}^{\alpha}y_1(t)]_{t=1}=\phi_1(y),\;[D_{0^+}^{\alpha}y_2(t)]_{t=1}=\phi_2(y),\quad 1\leq \alpha\leq n-2, \] where \(\vartheta_1,\vartheta_2\in(n-1,n]\) and \(\phi_1,\phi_2:C[0,1] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) represent nonlocal boundary conditions. For this coupled system, the author establishes existence of at least one positive solution by deriving explicit intervals for the parameters \(\lambda_1\) and \(\lambda_2\) for which the system possess at least one positive solution. Later, they illustrate the result with an example.